Re: help on load balancing

["Paweł Staszewski" <pstaszewski@artcom.pl>]

You can't do load balance across 4 dsl link "per packet" ....
Only per session.

If your isp is doing reverse path filtering .


Try routes patch from : http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/

And it will be working fine :)


Rob Sterenborg wrote:

>On Thu, December 15, 2005 14:21, wlagmay@yanbulink.net wrote:
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>>Hi Rob,
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>>Im sorry, I forgot to inform you that the clients are not using this
>>3 lines to go directly to the internet, instead the on the same
>>machine I install Squid proxy server, hoping that with the load
>>balance technique, squid can take advantage of the connection
>>simultaneously, so my problem actualy is the squid
>>to use the 3 lines simutaneously.
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>I haven't used it myself so I'm a bit guessing here ; you may be able
>to alter locally generated packets (from Squid) using the ROUTE target
>combined with the nth match in the OUTPUT chain of the mangle table so
>the packets are diverted over the 3 NIC's.
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>Something like :
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>iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 \
>  --every 3 --packet 0 -j ROUTE --oif eth0
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>iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 \
>  --every 3 --packet 1 -j ROUTE --oif eth1
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>iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 \
>  --every 3 --packet 2 -j ROUTE --oif eth2
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>(Where eth3 is your LAN NIC.)
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>Gr,
>Rob
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>>Quoting Rob Sterenborg <rob@sterenborg.info>:
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>>>On Thu, December 15, 2005 12:32, wlagmay@yanbulink.net wrote:
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>>>>Squid proxy, Im monitoring the 4 ports via MRTG and I noticed that
>>>>before It goes to link 2, link 1 must be saturated first or link1
>>>>will stop and the request is only transfered to link 2. So it
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>>>seems
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>>>>that it is not doing a load balance, my idea of load balance is
>>>>utilizing the 3 lines simultaneously.
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>>>Perhaps you can use the nth patch.
>>>http://www.netfilter.org/projects/patch-o-matic/pom-base.html#pom-base-nth
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>>>Gr,
>>>Rob
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