At 10:00 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Robert G. Fisher wrote: >Has anyone had any experience using load balancing/sharing on >two or more serial links originating from a linux box and >terminating on a Cisco router or is there a HOWTO or similiar >documentation that could step me through such a configuration? We have such functionality in software for our cards. There is no problem doing so,load balancing only controls transmit so there doesnt need to be the same mechanism in place on both ends. Last I checked, ciscos only do packet balancing (while we do bit balancing) so they are not as efficient out of the cisco as out of the linux box. With out "multilink" utility, the following would add devices ets0 and ets1 to a balanced bundle interface named multi0 ifconfig ets0 up ifconfig ets1 up multilink create -b multi0 multilink add multi0 ets0 multilink add multi0 ets1 ifconfig multi0 locaddress pointopoint remoteaddress route add default gw remoteaddress Dennis Emerging Technologies, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- http://www.etinc.com ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX Multiport T1 and HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers Bandwidth Management Standalone Systems Bandwidth Management software for LINUX and FreeBSD - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
