2x adsl lines---1 network ------1 pc --howto?

[headstrong]

Hi there

My friend has 2x adsl lines in his house ( each parent's work pay for 1 )
All the pc's in his house are connected via the same lan....

He wants to split the pc's equally between the 2 adsl lines but still maintain file + printer sharing..!

How would he choose which adsl line(modem) to make his pppoe connection through?

Thankks

 

[Surv0]

Set the default gateway on the relevent computers to the relevant routers... u can still run them all on the same network by linking the 2 routers... the default gateway is wat tells the computers which router to send traffic through...

 

[Franna]

Have a look at:
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=29060
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=28535

 

[Setsquare]

If you have some bucks to spend you can use Mikrotik RouterOS, you can get a RB532 locally (Miro, Uniterm, Scoop) for about R1500 or so and they are easy to get.

Then look @ the following

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Load_Balancing_over_Multiple_Gateways
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Improved_Load_Balancing_over_Multiple_Gateways

This hardware has many other features that im sure you will use

Good Luck

 

[headstrong]

I dnt know much about mikrotek so I will go with the dual wan root!

Just a quick question with dual wan:

1)Can my modems be in bridge mode because I want to make 2x pppoe connections ( local + international) for each adsl line??

2) can I use route sentry with dual wan?

Thanks

 

[squirrel]

I'm hoping those are 2x 1MB (4MB) lines, right?

 

[headstrong]

nope! 384 and a 512

 

[squirrel]

WTF is the point of that? Might as well get a 1MB line and then split the cost in 2

 

[headstrong]

Thats what I said but his parents dont pay so they dnt care!! What happens if one parent changes job???? then the 1 company is stuck paying for both parties...

Lets not worry about my line speed but concentrate on my problem...

 

[headstrong]

Can my modems be in bridge mode because I want to make 2x pppoe connections ( local + international) for each adsl line??

 

[Surv0]

They have to be in bridge mode to create those connection... if your planning on
creating 2 connections on the same pc you need to install raspppoe drivers to manage both connections. Routesentry will route all relevent traffic to relevent routers...

 

[Tinuva]

Honestly I have never used rasppoe and routesentry, though by the sounds of it, its for having 1x modem (thus 1x line) and making 2x pppoe connections over that 1x modem in bridge mode and then do the routing from there onward.

Now, in this case we have 1x, 2x modems (thus 2x lines) and he want only 1x pppoe connection over both lines. Easiest would be to have 2x PCs and just do it the regular way.

However you only have 1x pc. If you can choose with raspppoe whether a pppoe connection must go over a specific network card, then I can see this work.

Personal choice for me, but I would use either linux or freebsd in this case, since you can tell the pppoe connection which interface to use. So, 1x pc with 2x network cards, each network card connected to a adsl modem with bridged mode. This way you can force pppoe connection #1 to go over network card #1, and same applies for pppoe connection #2 over network card #2 and you do your relevant routing from there.

With iptables you can even route different types of connections over a specific interface. So you can send mail, web traffic + gaming over connection #1, and torrent/usenet trafficer over connection #2.

This all however needs some complicated tweaking and I dont think I would recommend it for your everyday Joe.

 

[headstrong]

Thanks guys

Is iptables windows based? that could be useful because I only really want gaming on 1x line and I want to shove everything else on the other line