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PrinceofWands

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I've recently come into a new situation for me. I'm renting 1/2 a house that was already wired for some pretty good cable internet (up to 4m down, 512k up) but like all cable they shun static ip's and servers. So I set up a new dsl business service (pulling 1100 down, about 600 up) with my static ip's and such for my servers. I got to thinking how nice it would be if there was a combination dsl/cable modem rather than having two, or some kind of router that could take the two LAN feeds from the existing two modems (and their two different IP ranges) and give me one workable ultra high speed connection. Anything like that exist, or should I just keep the two permanently seperated?
 
Yeah that's what I'll do for now...at least until this becomes available (and maybe goes on sale). I just hate to waste that cable bandwidth on the 4 systems that are on it, especially since only one of them ever actually draws anything over it. I'd much rather share it with the servers which will be much more consistent in their usage. Plus, I'd rather keep close to a full mb up on the server side, just on general principle.
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Yeah that's what I'll do for now...at least until this becomes available (and maybe goes on sale). I just hate to waste that cable bandwidth on the 4 systems that are on it, especially since only one of them ever actually draws anything over it. I'd much rather share it with the servers which will be much more consistent in their usage. Plus, I'd rather keep close to a full mb up on the server side, just on general principle.
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You didn't read the FAQ did you. You can only server from one.
 
Ok, new concept. Does anyone know of any unix (freebsd) based load balancing software? I got to thinking (ok my friend actually had the idea) that I might be able to set up my existing unix gateway to do the same thing and save the cost of purchasing a router for it. That could also allow me a little better control when doing my internal architecture and routing. All I'd need to do is drop in a 3rd nic to allow for double WAN, or maybe up to a 4th if I wanted to keep the servers in a dmz and the other home computers off of it. Hmmm.....
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Ok, new concept. Does anyone know of any unix (freebsd) based load balancing software? I got to thinking (ok my friend actually had the idea) that I might be able to set up my existing unix gateway to do the same thing and save the cost of purchasing a router for it. That could also allow me a little better control when doing my internal architecture and routing. All I'd need to do is drop in a 3rd nic to allow for double WAN, or maybe up to a 4th if I wanted to keep the servers in a dmz and the other home computers off of it. Hmmm.....
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I don't think you know what your getting your self into. If I were you, I would use th DSL for the servers and the cable for the computers. The only way I could see this is with some impressive DNS settings. You wuold need round robin + a DDNS service, Not worth it.
 
I know I could play it easy and keep it the way I have, and I still may. After he mentioned the software lb idea I just kind of got taken with the idea...not because I need it, but because it would be an interesting project. Whats the fun of having a dozen systems in your house if you don't mess with them in ways most people don't. 😎 I know I couldn't touch the incoming stuff in any useful way, but that's ok, upstream is the tighter cap anyway. And I would be per-destination instead of per-packet, but still.

It also gave me the idea of building a new case from scratch to house the modem's, public-side router, switches, etc...along with the gateway machine. Again, not necessary, but something fun to do that most other people wouldn't have seen. Yeah I'm a geek, so sue me. 😎
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I know I could play it easy and keep it the way I have, and I still may. After he mentioned the software lb idea I just kind of got taken with the idea...not because I need it, but because it would be an interesting project. Whats the fun of having a dozen systems in your house if you don't mess with them in ways most people don't. 😎 I know I couldn't touch the incoming stuff in any useful way, but that's ok, upstream is the tighter cap anyway. And I would be per-destination instead of per-packet, but still.

It also gave me the idea of building a new case from scratch to house the modem's, public-side router, switches, etc...along with the gateway machine. Again, not necessary, but something fun to do that most other people wouldn't have seen. Yeah I'm a geek, so sue me. 😎
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I'm just saying that it would be much smarter to seperate the servers from the other computers.
 
True enough...though as long as I assign the dmz it's own interface and set the rules correctly it shouldn't be too much of a difference. Of course, then I've got 4 nic's on the gateway, which would be interesting writing the rules for.
 
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Ok, new concept. Does anyone know of any unix (freebsd) based load balancing software? I got to thinking (ok my friend actually had the idea) that I might be able to set up my existing unix gateway to do the same thing and save the cost of purchasing a router for it. That could also allow me a little better control when doing my internal architecture and routing. All I'd need to do is drop in a 3rd nic to allow for double WAN, or maybe up to a 4th if I wanted to keep the servers in a dmz and the other home computers off of it. Hmmm.....
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you could just buy a hotbrick it would be hardware and much simpler to setup that getting another pc to run a software configuration for that. edit: linky
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
Ok, new concept. Does anyone know of any unix (freebsd) based load balancing software? I got to thinking (ok my friend actually had the idea) that I might be able to set up my existing unix gateway to do the same thing and save the cost of purchasing a router for it. That could also allow me a little better control when doing my internal architecture and routing. All I'd need to do is drop in a 3rd nic to allow for double WAN, or maybe up to a 4th if I wanted to keep the servers in a dmz and the other home computers off of it. Hmmm.....
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you could just buy a hotbrick it would be hardware and much simpler to setup that getting another pc to run a software configuration for that. edit: linky
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Well there's ease, and then there's cost. I don't have $500 lying around (well I do, but it's tagged for other things in my life), especially not for something I don't need, only have a inkling of wanting to try for fun. That's the downside of averaging 10-20k a year max income. 8-(

But on the bright side, I do have a configured unix gateway already, and plenty of spare parts...and there's always more time to be had soemwhere. So providing it's possible it'd be a fun way to save $500, learn some things, and do something most other people hadn't. 😎

Yeah, I know, I'm a geek.
 
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