Hello everybody.
I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband "joining" both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access.
¿is this possible? ¿too much complicated?
Searching the Net i found something simliar: http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html but, I would like to read a second opinion.
Thank you very much. Cheers.
Am 10.12.2009 um 01:39 schrieb Alvaro Schneider Guevara:
Hello everybody.
I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband "joining" both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access.
¿is this possible? ¿too much complicated?
Searching the Net i found something simliar: http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html but, I would like to read a second opinion.
Thank you very much. Cheers.
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Use pfSense (www.pfsense.org) for that. It's based on FreeBSD, but you don't really need care about the OS - it comes with a web-gui that can configure everything (fail-over, WAN- loadbalancing/failover).
Unless you want to spend a lot of time and never get it right 100%...
Rainer
just download one of the firewall distros that have the built in
pfSense (FreeBSD) or IPCop (Linux) are the first 2 to mind. ClarkConnect is another good one though it may have limited functionality without paying, I don't know for sure. But we paid for it at work and it works really well for doing that.
you can take a look at SYSWAN SW24 10/100Mbps Dual WAN Load Balancer
Gabe
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alan McKay Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
just download one of the firewall distros that have the built in
pfSense (FreeBSD) or IPCop (Linux) are the first 2 to mind. ClarkConnect is another good one though it may have limited functionality without paying, I don't know for sure. But we paid for it at work and it works really well for doing that.
Alan McKay wrote:
just download one of the firewall distros that have the built in
pfSense (FreeBSD) or IPCop (Linux) are the first 2 to mind. ClarkConnect is another good one though it may have limited functionality without paying, I don't know for sure. But we paid for it at work and it works really well for doing that.
IPCop, if I recall correctly, doesn't load balance or fail-over - pfsense does.
Ian
From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
Hello everybody.
I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband "joining" both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access.
You’d be better off with dedicated firewall-distro like, Smoothwall et al.
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