This question was discussed for many times at asl forum. I think the only way to connect with two internet connections was a router with two interfaces to dsl.
Your question was so because you want to connect with two providers?
Here is the entry from forum
[ QUOTE ] I want to know if it is possible to configure more than one internet connection, and to balance the traffic in each one.
[/ QUOTE ] v4 does not support load balancing..it does support fail over..if your primary link goes down ASL will switch to the other link. if you want to load blance you will need to but the ASL behind a router/load balancer(larscom is one brand) to get that functionality.
Its the same provider for the 2 connections. Tha bigger adsl connection they provide is 512kb and I want to lease a second one in order to upgrade the bandwidth to 1024 kb
It is possible to do if you're good at Linux routing. It has been suggested that an intermediary hardware appliance is much more cost-effective, if your time is money...
A brand name for loadbalancing with a router ist ALLNET. There have two DSL ports and can loadbalancing or connect with two different provider (ALL1297 loadbalancing DSL Router). See the link For more information you can contact sales from ALLNET USA at your country (for other country you can see the contact details at the homepage). I hope it will help you.
Due to personal issues I've been away from Astaro.org, but I'm back.
I'm curious about how people are using load balancing. I haven't looked at the multi port SOHO routers but assume they have the typical options plus the load balancing.
Are people setting them up as a router or the typically default Nat/Masq? I'm concerned about double Masq devices. Would you set-up the SOHO as a basic router and use what they call "DMZ" and point both lines to Astaro as the DMZ device. I imagine a shuttle network (192.168.x.x) between the SOHO and Astaro.
Astaro then only has to know about a single gateway. How about IPSEC tunnels when it might not be certain which line it will travel over or if failover occurs at the SOHO?
