Dnia środa, 15 marca 2006 16:42, Eduardo Fernández napisał: > Hi! > > I'm doing load balancing for 5 dsl lines, each one with a dsl router > attached to a linux machine ethernet plug. The problem is that I'm > adding 15 more dsl lines, and I don't have enough PCI slots in the > linux machine to sum up 20 ethernet plugs (I already have 2 quad > ethernet cards). > > So I'm considering connecting all dsl routers and the linux machine to > a switch and doing load balancing per route, instead of per interface. > What are the problems? AFAIK I won't be able to do traffic shaping, > anything else? > Get a switch thats supports VLANs ( eg cisco 2950 ), make a vlan trunk to pc with 2 ethernet PCIs ( 1 to net , 1 to lan ). Connect each ADSL modem to switch, put each modem on some individual VLAN. Now configure VLANs on network interface on that PC connected to that switch ( i guess it will be eth0 ) - you will get as many as you wish virtual interfaces ( like eth0.1, eth0.2 and so on ), you can traffic shape on them, use iptables like on any other interface... -- Jakub Wartak -vnull FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Linux/Solaris/Network Administrator http://vnull.pcnet.com.pl/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
