I've been trying to test the load balancing in our lab and it doesn't
appear to be working. I have a RH 8.0 firewall, which appears to have
all the specified options set in the kernel .config. I am running a
sniffer on both out-going links, and only ever see traffic go down one
or the other, never both. It's always the one I list first:
ip route add default scope global equalize \
nexthop via 172.27.3.3 dev eth1 weight 1 onlink \
nexthop via 172.27.1.1 dev eth0 weight 1 onlink
What looks weird is the output:
# /sbin/ip route list
172.27.15.0/24 dev eth2 scope link
172.27.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 172.27.1.200
172.27.3.0/24 dev eth1 scope link
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link
default equalize
nexthop via 172.27.3.3 dev eth1 weight 1 dead onlink pervasive
nexthop via 172.27.1.1 dev eth0 weight 1 onlink
The 172.27.3 and .1 are both the external links, but I haven't found an
explanation for what "dead" and "pervasive" are. I also don't see those
showing up in any of the examples I've seen. So any clues why this only
goes out the first link? I first thought kernel or default gateway, but
made sure the original default gateway was not specified, and the kernel
appears to be correct. Something else I've obviously missed?
Thanks!
Dan
