How to bind nics for dual throughput?

androidrootguy

Hello,

I have a VPS, and looking to get two external IPs to use with OpenVPN. How can I configure it to be able to use two nics to add throughput, something like binding the two nics I believe. My config for 1 nic is below.

port 443
proto tcp-server
;proto udp
dev tun
;dev tap
ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/server.crt
key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/server.key
dh /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/keys/dh1024.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
push "redirect-gateway def1"
push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.222.222"
push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220"
push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8"
user nobody
group nogroup
management localhost 8000 # enable management interface
script-security 2 # to run scripts
client-disconnect "scripts/client-disconnect.sh" # log bytecounts to a file

mwandelaar

port 443
proto tcp-server

These directives makes openvpn listen on all interfaces, so on both adapters in your machine.
It's, i guess, the same as on my vps as you can connect on both my ip-addresses. But are you sure the second ip-address is a seperate NIC? I have an eth0 and eth0:1 for the different IP-addresses.

On the clientside you can issue:

remote-random
remote ip-address1 443
remote ip-address2 443

as a kind of load-balancing and therefore use both ip-addresses