Re: bandwidth aggregation
> On Nov 17, Gary Smithe illuminated :
> We'd like to aggregate bandwidth in such a way that all public
> addresses still work, but that bandwidth is somewhat evenly
> distributed. This aggregation would hopefully have the side-effect of
> preventing outages for any of our customers if any 1 of the upstream
> links fails.
>
I have seen a small black box unit which will do this. I have set up
this exact arrangement for one for one of our clients - a 3 person office
to do load sharing and balancing across two ADSL links.
Admittedly, 3 people and a total of 2MB is not quite the same scale ;)
Fortigate is the company. They make firewall appliances and they're
pretty damn cheap for what you get out of them.
http://www.fortinet.com
Linux wise, google gave me these
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.loadshare.shtml
OpenBSD might do what you want with CARP and pfsync.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html
sadly, I couldn't find anything with the magic word "HOWTO" in its title
:(
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