RE: [LARTC] Load Balance simply doesn´t work...

Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control

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> > >
> > > ip route add default scope global nexthop via $P1 dev
> $IF1 weight 1 \
> > >     nexthop via $P2 dev $IF2 weight 1
> > >
> >
> > This multipath routing command keep coming up as classic
> > way to perform multipath routing for NAT access, which I
> > considered it as VERY misleading.
> >
> > It should only be used if you are NOT using NAT.
>
> You mean that using NAT its impossible to do load balance or
> this is the worng command? If its the wrong command, what´s
> the right one?

Wrong way to do it. Destine for failure !

Imagine if you have several external IP addresses and your connection
to a particular application keep changing from one IP to another ...

Perhaps you won't see any problem on short sessions or connectionless
application but it is definitely a problem for connection oriented
applications or security conscious applications.









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