Subject: Re: Any Nexland router experience
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@akghetto.com)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 01:51:25 AKDT
Is this the device that hijacked the main 24.237.0.1 router and turned
it into a bridge to the ACS DSL network?
That was NOT fun.
Scott
On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 11:30 America/Anchorage, Leif Sawyer wrote:
>
> Chris Hamilton writes:
>> Hi all, I'm interested in getting a Nexland router. It will
>> let me run 2 DSL lines through a singe router. This will be
>> new to me and I'm wondering if anyone out there has tried this
>> particular unit
>>
>> ftp://ftp.nexland.com/pub/media/ProAll_Manual.pdf
>
>
> I don't have any hands-on experience with these, however I've dealt
> with customer issues stemming from the use of these routers.
>
> The first issue is that the IP stack on the router is pretty flakey.
> One point is this: you are limited to a class-C (/24) block on your
> LAN. If you exceed this (say, configure for a class-B (/16) it can
> have "interesting" effects, like turning the router into a bridge.
>
> Be _very_ carefull with these.
>
>
>> Also, the 2 DSL lines are from different ISPs. Does anyone have any
>> experience they would like to share regarding load balancing
>> 2 different DSL lines from 2 different ISPs. 1 line is dhcp and the
>> other is pppoe.
>
> Hmm.. You won't be able to load share unless the NexLand supports
> a "forced per-session" option, but you can use tricks with DNS to
> round-robin your incoming requests. This will work somewhat like
> loadsharing, but it won't actually load-balance.
>
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