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by **Thomas Rohric** » Sat, 23 Dec 2000 05:47:18

Of course lots of people have used Linux to build a firewall/router box for
their connection to broadband internet, but I'm wondering if anybody has
ever done this to connect to *both* cable modem and DSL at the same time.
The idea would be to pull data through the fastest channel at any given
moment, and have some redundency in case one of the two services goes down
for a while.

Any thoughts on whether this is at all feasible using an old machine with
three NICs?

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by **Rich Laffer** » Sat, 23 Dec 2000 09:20:04

In can.internet.highspeed,

> Of course lots of people have used Linux to build a firewall/router box for
> their connection to broadband internet, but I'm wondering if anybody has
> ever done this to connect to *both* cable modem and DSL at the same time.
> The idea would be to pull data through the fastest channel at any given
> moment, and have some redundency in case one of the two services goes down
> for a while.

> Any thoughts on whether this is at all feasible using an old machine with
> three NICs?

I can't imagine why it *wouldn't*. The difficult part would be that
involving load balancing, but I'm sure you could at least use a naive
approach if it wasn't possible to do intelligently.

(I've got two connections and routes on one ADSL modem, just because I
can. I find that for a dedicated router, BSDs require much less effort
than Linux, for what its worth.)

-Rich

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Rich Lafferty ----------------------------------------
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Concordia University, Montreal, QC

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Possible? Linux router using BOTH cable and DSL?

Possible? Linux router using BOTH cable and DSL?

Possible? Linux router using BOTH cable and DSL?