I think perhaps this will conflict with the idea as IP protocol, it does not guarantee the delivery path of a packet, but guarantee the delivery of a packet. While, if you want to designate the path of packet delivery , source route will do some help although its capacity is really poor. James Shen > > Not really an answer to your question but I was also wondering > about a related topic. Let's say my Linux server has one ethernet > card (using IP aliasing) and multiple default gateways to > get back to the internet. Is there a way to make my IP packets go > back to the clients via the same exact gateway that they > came through? > > Thanks, > Tuan > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Mordechai Ovits wrote: > > > I read RFC 1122 section 3.3.1.* on default gateway selection. It implies > > that default routes are for failover, not for load-balancing. And linux > > follows this. As long as one of the default gateways is reachable, linux > > will send traffic to that one only. > > > > So, does anyone know of a way to get linux to load balance default routes? > > It would be best if the loadbalancing was sticky at layer 4, but not required. > > > > Thanks, > > Mordy > > > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
