MultiWAN PPPoe

Kevin · Jan 28, 2010, 8:38 PM

just curious if anyone has tried this successfully. Some older post show it as broken and I tried a few months ago without sucess. I have a site with 2 DSL's that I could test on, but would like to see if any known progress has been made.

dusan · Jan 30, 2010, 1:16 PM

I have 3 PPPoE links and I'm running the latest BETA-1 snapshot. It works, provided that the links are from different ISPs (to be exact, different gateways).

dusan · Jan 30, 2010, 3:42 PM

Update 2010-01-30: From a generated pf rule
pass in log quick on em1 route-to { (pppoe0 25.26.68.69), (em4 192.168.0.65), (em5 192.168.0.69) } round-robin inet all flags S/SA keep state label "USER_RULE: pass others out via any WAN"

This is an outbound load-balancing rule. em1 = LAN, pppoe0 = WAN, em4 = OPT1, em5 = OPT2. I've connected two PPPoE links sharing the same gateway to OPT1 and OPT2 through ISP's NAT devices, to address the route-to-gateway-only short-coming.

Now, with RELENG_8_1 it appears that PF route-to function was improved. It can now route to interface and gateway thus the NAT devices seem to be no longer necessary.

Untested. You should try it to see if this is true.

Kevin · Feb 4, 2010, 2:27 AM

Thanks for the info. I will give it another go shortly.