2 Broadband connections

[old.jackherer]

I have ADSL and BlueYonder. I had already signed up to ADSL when telewest offered me BlueYonder for free (cos i own a computer shop) and i have to stick out the minimum contract term on ADSL. Does anyone no how I can easily use 2 different connections on one network using NAT. Can it be done or does it have to have a public IP for every PC on the network and have 2 "gateways". I am reasonably proficient at TCP/IP networking but this one is a bit beyond me.

Any help would be much apreciated ;-)

 

[Will]

Dunno, but I appreciate your name. Did you read his book, the Emperor has no Clothes?

 

[Testin da Cable]

you could set up a loadbalancing router/firewall in an old pc. three nic's, inside one connects to the network. other two adapters go to the ISP's.
I know for a fact that a Novell Netware4.11 [and above] server can do it, and routing with Linux, BSD or [shudders] an MS product isn't all that hard [I use Linux and the BSD's myself]. The balancing on the other hand is something I havn't done yet, but it would be a nice project to start.

Good Luck!

-TdC

 

[Perplex]

Yep, load-balanced router. Either go the TDC pointed you (i'd take the 'nix option personally) or fork out for a load-balancing router (muahaha) although being a computer shop you could get it at trade price

 

[old.jackherer]

Cheers fellas, i'll give the linux option a go i think. Can't realy afford an expensive router.

And ItchyTrigaFinga, no i haven't read his book. Grown his plants tho

 

[Will]

Originally posted by jackherer
Grown his plants tho

Good man

 

[bigbigt0]

lucky bastage

bigt

PS sorry I couldn't help

 

[]SK[]

yeh www.blackbox.com do something like this that will bind the two. other than that you will have to use two routers and set some computers to look at 1 connection and others to the 2nd.