CentOS - Dec 2009 - Linux router with CentOS

Hello everybody.

I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router
for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the
gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize
the broadband "joining" both connections, and given the case, do not
lose
the Internet access.

?is this possible? ?too much complicated?

Searching the Net i found something simliar:
http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html but, I would like to read a
second opinion.

Thank you very much. Cheers.
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Am 10.12.2009 um 01:39 schrieb Alvaro Schneider Guevara:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a  
> router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would  
> work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of  
> this is to optimize the broadband "joining" both connections, and
> given the case, do not lose the Internet access.
>
> ?is this possible? ?too much complicated?
>
> Searching the Net i found something simliar:
http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html
>  but, I would like to read a second opinion.
>
> Thank you very much. Cheers.
>
> _

Use pfSense (www.pfsense.org) for that.
It's based on FreeBSD, but you don't really need care about the OS -  
it comes with a web-gui that can configure everything (fail-over, WAN- 
loadbalancing/failover).

Unless you want to spend a lot of time and never get it right 100%...



Rainer
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just download one of the firewall distros that have the built in

pfSense (FreeBSD) or IPCop (Linux) are the first 2 to mind.
ClarkConnect is another good one though it may have limited
functionality without paying, I don't know for sure.   But we paid for
it at work and it works really well for doing that.


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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS

 

Hello everybody.

I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router
for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway
for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the
broadband "joining" both connections, and given the case, do not lose
the Internet access.



You?d be better off with  dedicated firewall-distro like, Smoothwall et al.

 

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>
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> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
> Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
>
>
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a
router
> for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the
> gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to
optimize
> the broadband "joining" both connections, and given the case, do
not lose
> the Internet access.
>
> You?d be better off with? dedicated firewall-distro like, Smoothwall et al.
>
>
>
> Html should be off in mails.
>
> --
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> /Sorin
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Another Vote for Pfse3nse, the best router7firewall distro around,
well just my opinion.

Cheers,

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