nitroshift Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 Just had a thought... My neighbour and myself have a DSL connection to the internet each. I want to set up a box to connect to the internet using both DSL lines and share the combined link between us. Is it possible? Both connections are made through DSL routers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendrag Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 if I understand your setup correctly, you'd use 1 box to have 2 lines come in and serve yourself and your neighbor. Aside from the appropriate wiring downstream of that box, it could be done.It'd be a bit of setup work because you'd have to turn that box into a firewall, DNS, NAT, DHCP, etc... but once that's done I believe all you'd need to do would be to bridge the 2 network connections coming in (in windows), and have a 3rd go to your internal network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 You could indeed build a server and it could be a pain in the bottom. Software like ClarckConnect (Linux based, stand-alone) can do it, but I don’t remember if the free version can do Load Balancing of 2 WAN lines.I would take a dual WAN router;Symantec VPN 200, Nexland Pro800, BroDigit NFR3024, Hawking FR24, Xincom XC-DPG402, Xincom XC-DPG502, Xincom XC-DPG602, OvisLink MN200, HotBrick Firewall VPN 600/2, HotBrick Firewall VPN 1200/2, ZyXel ZyWall 35, Linksys RV082, Edimax BR-6104K, Xterasys XR-4106, and Pheenet BIG-02/4... And there are more, I prefer LinkSYS (SISCO now) my self but it’s not the cheapest.Not always, you can Load-Balance incoming and outgoing xDSL lines, you have to try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted August 28, 2007 Author Share Posted August 28, 2007 I think I'll go this way: put 3 NIC's in the server, 2 will connect to the DSL routers and the remaining will go out to a switch that connects the 2 pc's and see if I can load balance the lines. If this won't work, I'll go with puntoMX's suggestion. Thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 Here is some similar (DSL vs. NIC) past discussion (including a comment by nitroshift):http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=80873http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=7605 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted August 30, 2007 Author Share Posted August 30, 2007 Here is some similar (DSL vs. NIC) past discussion (including a comment by nitroshift):http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=80873http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=7605D'oh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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