I'm sure it could work but you probably won't be too happy with the quality of the load balancing. When I got two lines I started to build a Linux router, bought a Cisco and a couple other cheaper routers. I came to the conclusion that making a general router do load balancing like this effectively is just not worth the effort.
I recommend a box made for just that purpose. I'm using the Xincom XC-DPG502 router with two high speed wireless lines. It does a pretty good job of load balancing the two different speed lines.
There are other products but they cost a LOT more than the Xincom.
Saravana Kumar wrote:
I am running redhat9 in my gateway machine. Presently i have a DSL connection which is working all right. Now i have got one more connection for backup.
What i want to do is to use both effectively. The goal is to use both of them in parallel. So i dont have to worry if one goes down(the other connection should handle all requests).
I have got one more NIC card in the system and tried to configure it. But failed. As i configured the new nic with the static ip given by new isp it sets the new isps gateway as default and i couldn't able to connect neither of them
Present config eth0 --> ip by isp1
eth1 --> internal ip
tried with
eth2 --> ip by isp2
restart network route -rn --> shows isp2's gateway as default gateway.
Googled and found many things that weren't relevent for me. Some were dead ends. I think i am searching in wrong places.
i understand i have to use iproute2 or routed daemon.
can someone shed some light on it? Thanks for any pointers.
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