On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:13:24AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
In our office we have relatively poor ADSL connectivity (4-6 Mbps - I know some people here have far worse though). We currently have two ADSL lines linked together via a Draytek router and do OK. However I'd like to think about adding a third line and that goes beyond what the Draytek can do.
So I'd like suggestions for Linux distros which could replace the Draytek and do some half decent load balancing (and possibly caching for eg Linux and Windows updates etc) across multiple connections. It would need to be able to handle a number of VPN connections too (PPTP unfortunately but that's determined by the other end points).
I'm not interested in rolling my own - it needs to "just work" in the way that the Draytek does.
ClearOS and pfSense are on my radar although I have no experience of either. Any other suggestions or advice?
I have been down a similar route.
I have a Draytek Vigor 2820n load sharing across two ADSL connections.
I'm considering adding a 3G/4G connection, or maybe using it to replace one of the ADSL lines.
The best I have come up with is to use OpenWrt, I have it on a Mikrotik router at the moment. However it's certainly not really a "just works" system.
OpenWrt on other hardware might suit you though, the issue with Mikrotik is that it's at what one might call a beta stage. Other hardware (take a look at the OpenWrt web site and conversations there, plus join the user mailing list to ask questions) is more mature and will work 'out of the box'.