I want to hook two cable modems to one firewall

[Biggerhammer]

Hello-
I'm adding a second cable modem to my network. I know that there is a device that will let me conglomerate the two modems so that my firewall (and, by extension, my users) gets to use all that bandwidth, but I am having a brain cramp and can't remember what the device is called.

 

[JackMDS]

It is called Dual WAN Router.

http://www.ezlan.net/loadbalance.html

There use to be entry level units for less than $100.
It seems that they are not making them any more so either you find an old one on ebay, or you buy SOHO level for few hundreds $$$.

Example: http://biz.pcconnection.com/IP...Detail.htm?sku=8324106

 

[Biggerhammer]

Thank you. I'll read up on these now.

 

[kevnich2]

Just out of curiosity, why do you have 2 cable modems? I am assuming they are the same provider? You definitely won't have redundancy if they're both with the same ISP, if the local node or anything goes wrong, both cable modems are hooked up to the same system. Depending on how congested your area is, bandwidth also might not be double either as they'll both be hooked up to the same network node (how cable technology works). I'll be going with 2 separate ISP's fairly shortly as I'll need a system that provides 100% uptime and since I have cable now, it'll either be DSL or FIOS.

 

[mooseracing]

I have the hawking home one, they still make it new, iirc its around 60-90 bucks. It sucks for anything but failover.

At work I maintain a Cisco 1811, dual wan, $800 and helluva alot better. Although I have issues getting the load balanicing working in my script that I haven't had time to sort out.