[lug] Home Network Question

[Bear Giles]

I remember Robert Cringely referring to a double-provisioned router in his
home but have no idea if it's still on the market, how much it costs, etc.
I think he may have had a more advanced setup though where he was a peer
node instead of being a client on two ISPs.

Bear


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Dan Ferris <dan at usrsbin.com> wrote:

> pfSense is an open source web base firewall.  It's BSD based, but it
> DOES handle multiple gateways.  I use it with 2 gateways at work. One
> primary and a failover/backup.
>
> You can just install it on a firewall with 2 NICs, one to each provider.
>
> Dan
>
> On 8/20/2012 8:08 AM, Robert Racansky wrote:
> > I have a friend who has two internet service providers (ISPs) running
> > to his house: Wispertel/Skybeam and Century Link.
> >
> > He is setting up his home network so that each P.C. at home has two
> > network cards, with a connection to each ISP's modem.  i.e., each P.C.
> > will have one connection to the Wispertel modem, and one connection to
> > the Century Link modem.
> >
> >
> > Question:  How would you set up the network so that one device,
> > instead of two, routes for the entire network?
> >
> >
> > Diagram and details at
> > http://www.peeniewallie.com/2012/08/robs-home-network.html
> >
> >
> > Feel free to answer on this e-mail list (which he does not read, but
> > I'll forward to him) and/or leave a comment at the URL above.
> >
> > Thanks.
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