[KLUG Members] load balancing router

[Patrick Stockton]

My company currently has two cable modems.  One of them is currently
dedicated to our mail server and the other is hooked up to a squid proxy
server to provide internet access.

In a few weeks our mail server is going to be decommissioned as we move the
entire corperate mail structure to a central Exchange server run out of our
corperate HQ (not my decision there).

Anyway.  We've got these cable modems till a least the middle of next year
on contract so I was thinking of trying to hook both cable modems in to my
Squid server and configuring it to do some load balancing and increasing our
overal capacity.

Having never attempted something like this before I was wondering if anyone
has done something like this and could offer some suggestions as far as
where to look for info and what modifications need to be made to the kernel
and networking configuration to take advantage of the second pipe.

Thanks

Patrick

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