Linux as a router/gateway

[Mick Ohrberg]

For all ye Roadrunners and DSL:ers out there who only need something simple
and have a 486DX## or a P-something to spare, check out
http://www.coyotelinux.com/. That's what I'm running right now. Pretty slick
if you know your ipfwdadm-rules.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay [mailto:bkelsay at wbmg.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:21 PM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: RE: Linux as a router/gateway
>
>
> Well, Freesco floppy-based router can use 3 nics and bridge the
> network.  I
> don't know about balancing the load though.  There might be a
> script avail.
> or you might be able to use squid or something to load balance.
>
> www.freesco.org
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeremy Fowler [mailto:jfowler at westrope.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:09 PM
> > To: Kclug
> > Subject: Linux as a router/gateway
> >
> >
> > How hard would it be to setup a Linux box to route Internet
> > traffic to two
> > separate DSL routers? Here's the setup, small office with 2x 256Kb DSL
> > routers/connections. This office was too far away from the CO
> > for anything
> > faster and the ISP's DSLAMs didn't support bonding of the two
> > DSL lines. So, now
> > they have two connections to the Internet and they split the
> > traffic in half by
> > assigning specific IP address ranges to the different routers
> > with DHCP. This
> > isn't very efficient if one side were to utilize bandwidth
> > more than the other
> > side. I had an idea of setting up a Linux box to route
> > traffic to the two DSL
> > routers directly and then set this Linux box as the default
> > gateway for the
> > network. This box would have three NICs one to each router
> > and then a third to
> > the LAN. How would one go about setting this up so that the
> > Linux box would
> > utilize both DSL connections evenly and efficiently? Is there
> > a way to do this?
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeremy Fowler
> >
> >
> >
> > majordomo at kclug.org
> >
>
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