William, I will have a look again! Simon On 1 Jun 2002, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > You completely missed what I was pointing you towards. I am not using or > talking about LVS at all. What I am talking about is alternative routes, > multiple gateways, and dead gateway detection for link failover. > > >From what you said initially and what you are saying below you and I are > in the same boat. > > Once again, if you want to be able to use more than one internet > connection, Julian's Linux patches apply. > > Granted there is more than just the patches provided on that page. I > tried to point you to the Linux routing section of that page. > > If you read either the nano-howto.txt or the dgd.txt you would > understand why I sent you that way. > > Ignore the LVS stuff and pay attention to the Linux Patches section. It > has the patches for 2.4 and 2.2 kernels to properly use more than one > internet connection. > > I can't express enough that I have been trying to do for some time > exactly what you are. I just have to equal bandwidth connections and you > do not. > > We both have seperate public IP blocks from each ISP that need to be > mapped back to single servers. So each server requires a minimum of two > Public IP's or in other words. For each internet connection you want to > be able to use, each server will require at least 1 ip, per ISP. > > Or if you have the money and the use go to ARIN and get a /20 network > some 4k+ globally routed IP's and have your ISP forward to your own > block. > > Then you can have a single Public IP per server. > > Otherwise check out Julian's patches and the .txt files. They are very > detailed and will give you a good over view. > > Good luck. > > On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 18:40, Simon Matthews wrote: > > On 1 Jun 2002, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > > > > Simon, > > > I have been working on a similar solution. To begin with you > > > need to > > > recompile the kernel with Julian's patches that can be found at > > > > > > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/#routes > > > > > > > William, > > > > I don't think the LVS project is addressing my problem. They are adressing > > methods to make multiple Linux boxes appear as one box. Their problem is > > the reverse problem to mine. I want to make one box look like 2 boxes and > > have it automatically use the best Internet connection -- where I define > > best as: 1. Use the Wireless connection if available, 2. Use the T1 > > connection if the the wireless connection has failed. > > > > My critical applications are: > > > > 1. Receive incoming email > > 2. Resolve DNS queries for my domain > > 3. Get outgoing packets to flow. > > > > For incoming email, I can specify 2 MX records for the 2 ISP-issues IP > > addresses. Both will ultimately end up at the same machine. I can specify > > the Wireless IP address as the highest priority. > > > > To resolve DNS queries, I can specify more than one IP address as the > > nameservers for my domain, again, both these may end up at the same > > machine, which has multiple IP addresses. I can specify the Wireless IP > > address as the highest priority > > > > For outgoing packets, I don't care about the source IP address, as long as > > it is one of my 2 IP addresses and I would like to use the wireless IP > > address if the link is up. > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
