RE: Re: IP Masquerade Issues

[RonSenykoff@xxxxxxxx]

<snip>
>teql can only be used if you control
both sides of the link.  There is a=20
>chapter in the lartc howto on load balancing that can help you.

I think you are referring to 4.2.2 where they refer to load balancing -
however that seems to be route based.  The setup I have - all three
machines
actually use the same gateway,  but the gateway will only allow a
certain
amount of traffic over any given interface, so several interfaces are used.

Thus every interface will give the same route - so won't I run into issues
by doing it this way?
</snip>

My understading of this (I'm load balancing
across DSL and cable) is that what distinguishes a route is the interface
on the linux box that is chosen. The route (via what interface) is cached
based on destination ip. For each interface you can define the gateway
that it uses. I don't see this causing any problems for you at all. In
fact, in the load balancing configuration, when you create a weight of
2 for a given interface, it actually creates 2 routes out that interface
to include in the mix to choose from, so having multiple routes with similar
information should not cause any confusion.

HTH
-Ron