Hi The one it installs with Redhat RPM of IPROUTE is borken AFAIK, better get lastest tar and install i had same problem, after installing the new Iproute, the routes works fine hare ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Wittenberg" <daniel-wittenberg@starken.com> To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:33 AM Subject: load balance problem > 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 > > >
