On 2015-04-30 13:24, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 29/04/15 10:13, 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 was going to suggest you look at the Linux Router Project, but it's defunct. However, in my travels I found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_and_firewall_distributions
The must be at least one of those that can help!
Cheers, Laurie.
I've used pfSense a lot, and it has documentation on multiple-wan and wan load balancing [1] and [2].
Alternatively, I've played a little with vyos [3] - its much closer to a router solution (linux-based but aiming to be compatible with Vyatta which is a commercial router OS), though haven't deployed it in anger anywhere yet - might be worth a look for a comparison. My experience so far, however, has been that the documentation is lagging behind the implementation with VyOs.
[1] https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN [2] https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=28121.0 [3] http://vyos.net
Hope this helps,
Jim