Christopher, On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 03:41, christopher cuse wrote: > hi all, > > i have been able to find only a trickle of information concerning > possible strategies for a 2 adsl setup using two different isp's. There should be a fair amount. Did you look in the archives and etc. > has anyone had experience in the usa or elsewhere working with their > providers to carry bgp tables, or would you recommend/implement a > round-robin arrangement? I do not think bgp applies in this scenario. By nature if you have ADSL lines you are going for low cost, high speed bandwidth. I am not aware of ISP providing bgp service to ADSL customers. I would assume you use to be in a large scale network, and bgp would be running internally and not communicating with the ISP. Round robin on the other hand really addresses a different issue. Bottom line I know what you are trying to do but I believe you are over complicating the scenario. I have been there, I looked into bgp, and in a way I guess I used round robin. In brief forget about bgp at least for now. Look into setting up a multipath route to your various isp's. You will need to compile a custom kernel, that has certain patches applied. You will build your routes, and that will give you what you are in search of from the inside out. Now from the outside in you will need DNS to do round robin, load balance, or simply to provide multiple IP's for a given domain name, or server. Docs on the inside out part appear to have moved. Catched versions are http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:MYvpvnMUmfsC:www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/+Julian+routes&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8 http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:OeB96bctG8UC:www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/nano.txt+Julian+routes&hl=en&start=2&ie=UTF-8 Julian is a regular participant on this list so if he catches this hopefully he can provide a url to where things currently reside. Otherwise send him an email for the patches you need when you are ready. Docs on the outside in http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201h/0201h.htm (Pay attention to the DNS part and forget the rest) Or see the Bind manual, or the manual/docs for your DNS server on using more than one IP address for a domain name. Also make sure to dig through the archives of this list. There is allot of info there. In a day or two I will post my old config. It will not come with instructions just the actual commands and IP addresses I used when load balancing/combining two SDSL lines. -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Support Group Obsidian-Studios, Inc. 3548 Jamestown Ln. Jacksonville, FL 32223 Phone/Fax 904.260.2445 http://www.obsidian-studios.com
