Hi all, > We have 2 different dedicated Internet connections (with two different > carriers). Naturally, each connection has different groups of IP > addresses. Each of the connections has a Cisco 1601 router at our end. > 1. We would like to use a Linux PC to balance the load (of outgoing > traffic from our backbone to the Internet) between the two connections. > > Someone told us that creating two default routes in the Linux machine, we > could achieve that goal (one default route would point to the router from > carrier "A", and the other default route would point to the router from > carrier "B". In this way we would accomplish that one outgoing packet be > sent through one of the routers and the next packet through the other > router. > > When we tried this, the Linux machine sent ALL outgoing packets through > the second default route (the last default route that we had created). > > The questions are: > - Should this work ? > - If so, is it necessary to recompile the kernel, or are we doing > something wrong ? > > 2. Does anyone know how to balance incoming traffic to our backbone ? > (Without having an autonomous system, which we don't have and are far > from having). > If anybody has any idea I'll be gratefull. Thank you... Andrés Segovia > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
