First of all i wanna thanks Christoph Simon for the support. Only after his reply to my email i could see the real solution to the problem (Valeu mesmo cara... me ajudou pra caramba! Fico te devendo essa!) :) Here is what i learned in a month of research: I tried A LOT of things to do load balance, including the one at LARTC homepage. The only tutorial that REALLY works in my case is the Christoph Simon at http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/nano.txt Maybe LARTC can replace the erroneous tutorial at http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html with the nano.txt. I will not write a tutorial, first of all cause my english is very bad. Second because the nano.txt tutorial can do the trick. I will just give some hints i used here. First of all the load balance DOESN´T work without the Julian Anastasov route patch. You can get it at: http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#routes So don´t be lazy, get the kernel source code, aplly the patch and compile the kernel. Pay attention to your nat configuration. In the first attempt I had problems cause i forgot to mask the nated ips on the postrouting table (this command is the last on my example below). I used the ip adress of the external interface, not the mask for the external network (nano.txt tutorial gives the 2 options...) Be sure that you don´t have a default route on your main table. If u have any, delete it! I have a linux box with: - Kernel 2.6.3 with Julian Anastasov patch to kernel 2.6.0- 2.6.3 http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/routes-2.6.0-test11-10.diff - iproute2-ss010824 - 4 ethernet cards: eth0 - internal lan ip range 192.168.1.x eth1 - internal lan ip range 192.168.2.x eth2 (ppp0) - external adsl with 600 Kb/sec down and 300 Kb/sec up eth3 (ppp1) - external adsl with 600 Kb/sec down and 300 Kb/sec up I have nat and my 2 lan access the internet using the linux box as gateway. I run 2 rp-pppoe daemon, one for each adsl connection. ppp0 ip: 200.101.233.120 ppp0 gateway: 200.138.225.254 ppp1 ip: 201.3.219.70 ppp1 gateway: 201.3.196.254 Here is the commands i use: #table main with priority 50, the highest one ip rule add prio 50 table main #table 201 ip rule add prio 201 from 201.3.219.70 table 201 ip route add default via 201.3.196.254 dev ppp1 src 201.3.219.70 proto static table 201 ip route append prohibit default table 201 metric 1 proto static #table 202 ip rule add prio 202 from 200.101.233.120 table 202 ip route add default via 200.138.225.254 dev ppp0 src 200.101.233.120 proto static table 202 ip route append prohibit default table 202 metric 1 proto static #table 222 ip rule add prio 222 table 222 ip route add default table 222 proto static nexthop via 201.3.196.254 dev ppp1 nexthop via 200.138.225.254 dev ppp0 #essential masquerade option iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.2.0/24 -j MASQUERADE Here is the route output: [root@localhost root]# route Tabela de Roteamento IP do Kernel Destino Roteador MáscaraGen. Opções Métrica Ref Uso Iface 200.138.225.254 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 201.3.196.254 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp1 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo Here is the ip route list output for the 4 tables (main, 201, 202, 222): [root@localhost root]# ip route list table main 200.138.225.254 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 200.101.233.120 201.3.196.254 dev ppp1 proto kernel scope link src 201.3.219.70 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth1 scope link 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 scope link 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link [root@localhost root]# ip route list table 201 default via 201.3.196.254 dev ppp1 proto static src 201.3.219.70 prohibit default proto static metric 1 [root@localhost root]# ip route list table 202 default via 200.138.225.254 dev ppp0 proto static src 200.101.233.120 prohibit default proto static metric 1 [root@localhost root]# ip route list table 222 default proto static nexthop via 200.138.225.254 dev ppp0 weight 1 nexthop via 201.3.196.254 dev ppp1 weight 1 And that´s all! I have a working and very well balanced system. I´m getting combined download speed of 120 Kb/sec running multiple simultaneous downloads (p2p, html, ftp, etc), 40 kb/sec simultaneous upload speed. I can play online games without problems. MSN/ICQ remains connected all the time using the same ip address. No packet loss problems.The two 600/300 lines really looks very similar to a 1200/600 line. It´s really wonderful. I hope this can help someone. The load balance isn´t so hard to do when you know which commands you really need. I did it, why can´t you do it too? :) Fernando Favero favero@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
