Try looking at bonding, (Cisco calls this Ether Chanel). I personally have not done any thing like this but I do believe that it is possible. Normally you have to have a swtich that is bonding capable, but seeing as you are using corss over cables I think you can mitigate that factor. Grant. . . . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Visham Ramsurrun" <vishamr2000@xxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 4:41 AM Subject: Re: netfilter Digest, Vol 9, Issue 20 > Hi to all, can any one tell me how to build load-balanced stateful > iptables firewall . > > I am using redhat 9 with an upgraded kernel of 2.6.10. > > I have 2 multi-homed PCs (3 NICs each) that are connected by a cross > cable. The traffic arrives on one of the PC through one interface and > has to be distributed over the 2 PCs equally and processed by the > firewall. > > How can we do this? > > Pls help if you know.. > > Regards, > Visham > >
