On Wednesday 24 March 2004 18:45, Mario wrote: > Okay here is my setup: > > Gentoo Box running 2.6.4 w/ 4 NICs > 1 NIC is for internal network > 3 NICs are for external network > > The machine has a static address assigned to the internal network nic. This > nic runs dhcp and dns forwarding. The other 3 nics have external dynamic IP > addresses. All will have the same gateway. There are 3 NICs because this is > a very large pipe, that will only allocate a certain ammount to each client > ( NIC ). > > The way i set this up is so that internal network clients will be routed > through the 3 nics with their packets sent out in a round robin sort of > fashion. I found a few sites explaining a bit about how to do this, and the > current setup i found that somewhat works is this: > > A virtual device teql0 is created: > This virtual device teql0 is an imaginary device using QoS Trivial link > equalizer (TeQL). It has a static ip address assigned to it. If you attempt > to ping it from another machine, you wont necessarily be pinging the same > network card every time. teql can only be used if you control both sides of the link. There is a chapter in the lartc howto on load balancing that can help you. Stef -- stef.coene@xxxxxxxxx "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
