Re: Load Balance

[Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>]

On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:22 -0300, Usuário do Sistema wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm deploy an test environment with load Balance in my
> Firewall using equalize as follow below
> 
> 
> I have two ISPs and one Inside network.
> 
> creating the load balance:
> 
> ip route add default scope global equalize nexthop via 200.247.209.65
> weight 1  nexthop via 201.72.12.1 weight 1
> 
> Zeroing the ip_filter
> 
> for eee in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do
> echo 0 > $eee
> done
> 
> creating more one table
> 
> ip route add default via  201.72.12.1  table telemar
> 
> 
> it's working in my environment. but I haven't done available in my
> production environment.
> 

Do you mean it doesn't work in your production environment?

> my question is: there is more parameter ,which, I have to set ? for
> exemplo, timers.
> 

If you are using 2 completely separate ISPs, then you will need to do
more than just provide equal-weighted gateways. You will need to send
the packets for each connection over the same ISP. The website below
gives more information:

http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-networking_en_Iptables-and-netfilter-load-balancing-using-connmark

Andy