Re:Redundant Solutions? (Score 1)

For connecting a large (300+ seats) internal network at our LAN parties to the Internet via a combination of ADSL and cablemodem lines, I use the Squid Proxy Cache to bundle the lines. This provides us with fault-tolerance, nice load-balancing of the outgoing connections, and a solid cache pool. There's one primary cache (high-end box with fast disks) that is visible to the users, and for each outgoing line a small PC (Pentium 233 will do fine) that acts as a parent (see round-robin option).

We've experimented with load-balancing on a layer below, and I've found it much more difficult to maintain and debug... you know, squid offers beautiful logs and has many cool tuning parameters (I can even put weights on the lines!).