On Tuesday 19 June 2001 09:15, Jing Shen wrote: > 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. That makes little sense. IP may not guarantee it, but linux can do this with no ill effects at all. I just want equal cost multipath type behavior on default routes. Mordy > 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 -- Mordy Ovits Network Engineer Bloomberg L.P. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
