On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 09:39 -0800, nate wrote:
Shawn Everett wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone have any experience connecting two or more DSL/Cable modems to a Linux box to provide load balancing and failover?
I haven't tried this on linux but it appears trivial in OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing
I personally prefer OpenBSD for firewalls/gateways over Linux. I love linux for pretty much all purposes except firewalls/gateways, and I don't use OpenBSD for anything other than firewalls/gateways. Mainly because of packet filter(pf), it's a wonderful tool.
I tried looking at some documentation for iptables for doing the same thing but it was pretty vague. I didn't notice anything similar to what pf can do in the document above. Closest I found was: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//NAT-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.3
I did this a couple of years ago with dsl and a cable modem. Take a look at the Adv-Routing-HOWTO on tldp.org.
Dave