On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:30:33AM -0400, Jonathan Earle wrote: > > Hi, > > If I have two nodes, A and B, with two possible routes between them via > routers R1 and R2 (see diagram below), is there a way to have the traffic > split between the two routes? I'm playing with the latest dev. kernels so > can take advantage of new toys if they are present. I've seen router > redundancy protocol implementations mentioned on other lists, but what I > want is not so much failover, but rather, multiple simultaneous traffic > flows. The multipath routing in Linux 2.2 does that fine. You need to have multipath routing enabled in the kernel configuration. ip route add net/prefix nexthop dev eth1 weight 1 nexthop dev eth2 weight 1 Note, it is true route balancing, no load balancing by packet. For details see the iproute2 documentation. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
