How to setup Network with 2 different internet conxs?

[popper]

Originally Posted by gordonuk

The answer is a dedicated linux box using UNTANGLE which allows you to have 2 different WAN connections running on one network. It can load balance or switch to the other if service fails. Works great, I have 50mb Virgin, and 4MB BT business, it balances between them great and is also great when virgin goes offline on the rare occasion. I can continue to use the internet. Would recommend it to anyone.

OC your vital part in this threads case 'bonding/fallover' of UNTANGLE is payware Only, and its not clear if they are using OSS in that payware part.

wereas this is not http://www.zeroshell.net and zeroshell has far more options availiable to you.



http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/load-balancing-failover/
Is it really possible to increase the Internet connection bandwidth?

The answer to this question is not, "yes, absolutely." It depends on what you mean by increasing the Internet connection bandwidth.

In essence, the Net Balancer distributes requests originating from the LAN by round-robin (weighed) policy over multiple Internet gateways.

In other words, if at a given point in time there is only one LAN user making only one TCP connection (e.g. he executes only one download from the web), his traffic will flow from a single gateway, thus it would not benefit from balanced connections.

Instead, if the LAN is crowded with users, each executing multiple requests at the same time, as a whole, their connections will have access to a higher bandwidth, equal to the sum of the single-access bandwidths.

We then conclude that a single connection may never have more bandwidth than what offered by a single link, while multiple simultaneous connections will, on average, altogether have access to a greater bandwidth, which will stretch to the sum of the bandwidths of all the Internet links being balanced.

On the other hand, VPN aggregation is a different story. In this case, balancing of traffic takes place in Layer 2, thus a bandwidth increase is also available for a single TCP/IP connection.
Configuring multiple Internet access gateways

Internet access gateways may include: .....

[gordonuk]

While Zeroshell seems to do the job. It's features are not as good as UNTANGLE.
I guess it depends on what you want. I use the filter on UNTANGLE also to block out certain sites. Makes it safer for the kids.

[popper]

thats what packages like Zeroshell's on-line updates 'DansGuardian' are for and its being maintained and improved on a regular basis.
http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/patch-details/

http://dansguardian.org/
"DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris.

It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.

DansGuardian is designed to be completely flexible and allows you to tailor the filtering to your exact needs.

It can be as draconian or as unobstructive as you want. The default settings are geared towards what a primary school might want but DansGuardian puts you in control of what you want to block.
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anything thats inside the payware distro's is available to the real free OSS turnkey LiveCDs and in far more flexable and expandable ways usually.

there are OC good reasons to pay for some things in the linux space, CoreAVC linux being a case in point, for the fastest software based AVC decoder FI.

but im not convinced UNTANGLE's bonded payware is in that good value space and werth the cost, as they seem to limit your multi WAN to 4 max which is odd putting a fixed limit on there.

true, sudo"bonding" (sudo because its not true end to end bonded at Both ends of the wire like docsis3 or the potential wireless multi channel bonding options etc if someone takes the time to made them from the available SW options today) is not very popular, or even known about right now by most end users today, and thats a shame, sudo or not, It DOES improve your muititasking data thoughput both UP and down, and potentially by a lot.

but at the heart of it, its not really very hard to find several WAN in your local area, so you dont really Need to even have them all in your home.

virtually everyones local friends (or at least many!) have at least a seperate single ISP WAN connection,and home LAN, and increasingly a/several FreeNAS mass storage devices stashed away somewere in a spare room or LAN connected loft etc.
http://www.learnfreenas.com/blog/

its doesnt take a lot to make that new private (community) Wireless LAN 11g/N connection you have always wanted to make to them all, intigrate it into your home LAN, and put a multi WAN router PC on there, connecting all of those friends seperate WAN's together for everyones benefit.

not least the ISP's, as you find you end up pulling more of your content/data off the collective faster FreeNAS (wireless) LAN than any ISP's WAN after the first initial copy.

the only problem to make multi WAN "bonding" more generally popular is 'ease of use' and initial 'setup and forget', thats were they are failing right now....shame.