peter green wrote:

> Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> I'm in the situation of having two broadband ISPs available here (cable and
>> ADSL), which both are at times really unreliable. So I thought of signing
>> up with both and set up a router that automatically routes the more
>> important packets through the WAN port where the traffic is best. Is
>> something like this possible, with reasonable expense and effort?
>>   
> A PC running linux is an option, so is something like the wrt54gl running
> custom firmware (you can reconfigure the switch in the wrt54gl to give
> you more independent ports).

I have one of these, but I didn't know that it's possible to configure the
ports independently. 

> Linux's routing system is very powerfull but more than a little complex, 
> you will need to read (or at least skim through) the iptables tutorial 
> and the linux advanced routing and traffic control howto.

Without something that someone has already set up and that works, I'm
afraid of the complexity involved. I need VPN passthrough, several
protocols (e.g. https) require that all traffic for one session goes
through the same WAN port, etc... -- it seems that it's not trivial to get
it right, by judging from the experiences with the first generation of
consumer-grade multi-WAN routers.

There is the pfSense distribution (a branch from m0n0wall), which seems to
have solved much of this. But I don't think it runs on a WRT54GL.

<http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=1>

Gerhard

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