From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nguyen Dinh Nam <64vn@cardvn.net> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:50:09 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Basic iproute configuration questions Message-Id: <4208B581.90909@cardvn.net> List-Id: References: <42087DA5.7080105@llondel.org> In-Reply-To: <42087DA5.7080105@llondel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org If nano-howto doesn't work, you should consult my different approach: http://selab.edu.ms/twiki/bin/view/Networking/MultihomedLinuxNetworking the tutorial comes with a completed daemon so you have a handy solution http://selab.edu.ms/twiki/bin/view/Networking/RoutesKeeperProject Mailing List Account wrote: > I've managed to get myself confused with what is probably quite simple > so if there's any definitive documentation then please give me > pointers. I've read and tried the nano.txt document, that's what I've > based my current setup on and it isn't working at the moment. > > I have two external links, a DSL link on eth1 and a cable link on > eth2. Both acquire their addresses via DHCP. The local network lives > on eth0 and has a static IP. The local network uses NAT to the outside > world. > > I need to be able to load balance between the two external links for > general outgoing traffic, force all outbound smtp traffic via eth1 and > be able to handle inbound traffic to various servers (IMAP, web, SMTP, > etc) on either link. My starting point is an old Pentium-2 box with > three network cards, running a fully-patched version of FC2 (kernel > 2.6.10-1.12_FC2). > > I had an old version that sort of worked on RH7.3 but it didn't do > load balancing (in those days the DSL link was an ISDN link so it > wasn't important) and handling inbound stuff was a crude hack[*] that > I'm sure isn't the best way to do things. > > So, what do I need to do? Am I missing a required kernel patch or > should the stock kernel be capable of what I want? Argh! > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/