Hi
I've been thinking about connecting two ISP's to a linux box and
then firewalling/masqrading that to a local net.
The solution I'm thinking of is:
- connect the ISP's to two different interfaces (say eth0/1)
- connect the local net via a third interface (eth3)
- bridge the two network interfaces into one (eth2)
- doing the rest of the iptables stuff using
eth2 as the internet and eth3 as the local net
some ascii art:
ISP#1 ISP#2
| |
===============================
| |
eth0 eth1
| |
---bridge---
eth2
|
iptables (linux box)
masq
|
eth3
|
===============================
|
local network
Now since I still have no playground for this to test, I've got these questions:
Would this solve the problem?
(local net have access at ISP1+ISP2 bandwidth to the internet)
Would the total load of connections outside be balanced
by iptables/bridge mechanism between the ISP's?
Is this the best/worst/fastest/slowest way to do this?
How will the things change when one of the ISP's fail?
--
with regards
Lukasz Hejnak
szift@xxxxx
