On 20/12/11 18:54, Andrew Beverley wrote: > I'd not come across routeskeeper, but if you need to roll your own > instead, then you may find the following set of scripts useful: > > http://andybev.com/index.php/PortalShaper > > It's a bunch of iptables and iproute2 rules that load share, amongst > other things. You should be able to just pull out what you need. I'm > currently working on the addition of LSM to monitor the status of > external links. > > Failing that, I found the following as quite a good tutorial: > > http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-Networking-EN-Iptables-and-netfilter-load-balancing-using-connmark > Thanks for those, I'll add them to my reading list. I remember the basic rules and how to set something up as a static config, but I'm after replicating the set-up/tear-down as well, and I want to improve things so I can more easily change stuff without needing a restart, because the original script didn't provide for re-reading the config file. Plus the fact that Perl is not a language I've used much. I guess dead gateway detection is also useful, given that it's the link beyond the DSL/cable modem that's important. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lartc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html