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grumle advanced routing
Posted by sno on Mon 5 Sep 2005 at 18:53
It's a pain in the ass having to disconnect from my cable modem in my room when wanting to connect to the other network in my house thats running downstairs, both isp accounts are connecting to a cable modem each, 1 is directly plugged into ethernet on my pc and the other modem goes to a router and on to switch, then on to downstairs pcs.
Ive been fiddling with a old box to act as a second router, which i hope will let me bond and connect 2 independant networks , allowing access to computers on those ranges and load balancing to combine up/downloads / quality of service. After reading the linux advanced howto i think i need something along the lines of this:
www.st0ner.co.uk/lart.jpg
This is less of a question for help and more of a rambling on my part to clear things but i would be interested in other views people have on tackling this approach.
Dual wan port'd routers are expensive :( and the second connection isn't being paid for so spending unneccesary £ is out of the question at the moment.
Ive been fiddling with a old box to act as a second router, which i hope will let me bond and connect 2 independant networks , allowing access to computers on those ranges and load balancing to combine up/downloads / quality of service. After reading the linux advanced howto i think i need something along the lines of this:
www.st0ner.co.uk/lart.jpg
This is less of a question for help and more of a rambling on my part to clear things but i would be interested in other views people have on tackling this approach.
Dual wan port'd routers are expensive :( and the second connection isn't being paid for so spending unneccesary £ is out of the question at the moment.
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I would like to implement dual wan router on Debian, but I don't really know how.
Could you give me some tips or some usefull links?
Could you give me some tips or some usefull links?
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after fiddling for a while it turns out my ISP discovered the dormant account and removed our second wan connection to the net, so at the moment i have no need for 2x wan ports and just using my old stinky netgear router :/
as for tips i read thoroughly the linux advanced routing howto at www.lart.org (seems down atm) or mirrors like http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/
Not sure how up to date + relevant it is but worth checking out.
as for tips i read thoroughly the linux advanced routing howto at www.lart.org (seems down atm) or mirrors like http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/
Not sure how up to date + relevant it is but worth checking out.
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