[TriLUG] Dual-homed Internet?

[Ron Kelley]

As a suggestion, I would use pfSense as your firewall (pfsense.org).  It has exactly what need with a very nice web GUI front-end.  It supports load balancing multiple outbound 'net links, traffic shaping, DDNS, DHCP, site-to-site VPN, etc.  I am using pfSense 1.3 in production for a very large datacenter deployment and cat attest to its performance and reliability.


-Ron



On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Paul Bennett wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Any tips, tricks, suggestions, or gotchas regarding dual-homed setup?
> 
> At home, my wife and I currently run two DSL lines. For some time, I've been meaning to install a smart load-balancer to effectively share both lines between both our PCs. It's never been a priority because, well, DSL's DSL, and 2 * DSL / 2 == DSL.
> 
> However, because she works from home, we're going to be replacing one of the DSL lines with a T1, in order to get stability, guaranteed ping, and guaranteed uptime.
> 
> Therefore, setting up something clever has become a bigger priority. I want to get set up so that ping-sensitive traffic goes to the T1 line, and bandwidth-hungry traffic goes to the DSL line, among other things. Also, since we'll have several static external IPs, I'm thinking some 1:1 NAT would be good for our SIP devices and a web server.
> 
> I'm thinking a severerly-hardened Gentoo box running Shorewall, with Webmin, Nagios & MRTG, on a low-end Core2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and a 10Krpm hard drive and/or cheap SSD.
> 
> Anything I should know (especially about Shorewall) before I start RTFM?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
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