At work we have been using Xincom Dual WAN Routers to "aggregate" our DSLs based on session. Below is an example:

[Site Address] thickair.com/drwng.GIF [Site Address]

This is getting more and more expensive as we get more DSLs and there are more points of failure. Besides, we are to a point where we can implement better security in Linux based routers.

SO...........

I've been looking all over for a way to make a N-WAN Linux-based router. I didn't think it would to hard since there seems to be a plethora of dual wan routers out there. Unfortunately I've been looking around for weeks and have not found a solution.

The only things I've found that are close are solutions that require software installed on both ends of the connection/link. The dual WAN routers don't require this and that doesn't solve our problem.

Please, any suggestions or leads would be much appreciated. Thanks

Does this work for you: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html? Then add a round robin DNS to "balance" betwen links? This should give different users, different IP address, so it goes over the different links. Not a perfect solution, but very work able.

Do you have multiple IP address? Are you using multiple ISPs? Does it use round-robin DNS?

"aggregate" our DSLs based on session.
You mean http session, right. Does your current router talk http or have a special link with the http servers?

You'll need some ISP support if you want two 1mb/s dsl links to allow you to transfer at 2mb/s.

Go to freshmeat.net and search for router. There are several distros that are designed specifically to be used as routers, stick the floppy in the drive and boot the computer and you got a router.

so are you trying to balance inbound requests or outbound requests

Bastard23

Thank you for the link. This is closer to what we need than I've found. I will explore it more very soon.

We do have multiple IPs from multiple ISPs. I'm not familiar with round-robin DNS. Do you happen to have a link for that off hand (If not, don't look I will look later). Thanks very much for your input.

bin/bash

Thanks for your reply. Our Linux boxes already pass/filter traffic, we are just having a problem putting multiple DSLs into it.

leckie

We have people surfing the internet from within our LAN, so we would need to put new http sessions (someone starting up a browser and going to blah.com) on the DSL with the least amount of traffic on it. So this would be outgoung connections I guess.

Thanks

I am also looking for a way to balance 2 outbound Internet connections,
however haven´t found too much.

In the meantime, I found this products that the manufacturer says is based on Linux.

This router seems to handle what you wants
http://www.redsonic.com/products/lb.htm

Up until recently, I was using a dual WAN setup with Cable and DSL. The info on what I did is up there for anyone who could benefit from it. Hope it helps!

I have been using this setup for months:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8129464

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Take a look at Vyatta It's a commercial firewall/router, but they open-source every release roughly 6 months after the commercial release. You can try the community edition for free, and if you like it you can pay to move up to the commercial edition...or not. According to the BGP Routing documentation (registration required), it supports aggregating connections.

I know this thread is rather old, but here is a small task I am trying to accomplish thats relevant to the topic of the thread:

I have two internet sources at home: connecting to my wired ADSL modem via ethernet port and through bluetooth via my phone.

Is there any way to connect both and assign individual applications to use an individual connection ? Like my browser to the phone and the download manager to the ethernet port ?