From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tomasz Chilinski" Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:51:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] is round-robin on interface aliases possible? Message-Id: <20041016094802.M54664@chilan.com> List-Id: References: <417056ED.3060505@sysd.org> In-Reply-To: <417056ED.3060505@sysd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:02:05 -0300, Stanislaw Pusep wrote > Hello, I'm new to the list and iproute2 itself. I was searching for > a way to simultaneously use several IPs on the *same network > interface* for outbound traffic. Let me explain: I have eth0 > interface to which I set 2 IP addresses; 192.168.0.1 and > 192.168.0.2. Then I want to connect to Internet through > 192.168.0.254 gateway using round-robin between those 2 addresses. > The iproute2 usage that best fits my needs is following: > http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html But I was > unable to get it working, as it supposes I have 2 *interfaces* > while I have only 1 interface with aliases. I'm simply unable to set > the same gateway on both IPs as it seems to be per-device setting. I > am aware that iptables is able to do it with: iptables -t nat -A > POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT -to-source 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.2 This > actually doesn't fits my needs as it only applies to masquerade > networks. Any suggestions? Thanks for attention! You can use nth and connmark extensions (patch-o-matic from http://netfilter.org) with two route tables. This way you can get load balancing for ip dialogues. -- Kind regards, Tomasz Chilinski _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/