From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Unterkircher Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:04:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Multiple ISP Links - Gateway Not Getting Restored Message-Id: <43B69E09.30306@netshadow.at> List-Id: References: <43B69A09.3030205@tuxspace.com> In-Reply-To: <43B69A09.3030205@tuxspace.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Perhaps the ip-up / ip-down scripts of pppd could help you to automatically do this load balancing script job? Manish Kathuria schrieb: > I have been successfully implementing load balancing gateways for > multiple ISP links at various locations using Julian's patches and as > suggested in LARTC HowTo. At one location, one of the ISPs is > providing connectivity through a PPOE DSL link which has to be dialled > in everytime to connect. The gateway has been configured on a Fedora > Core 3 based system and I have recompiled the 2.6.12 kernel after > applying Julian's patches. I have configured the DSL modem in bridge > mode and connected it to an ethernet interface on the gateway and use > the DSL dialer in Fedora Core 3 to connect to the ISP. This creates a > ppp0 interface when the connection goes live which is alloted a static > Public IP. The dialer has been configured to redial as and when the > link goes down. However the problem is that the kernel is not able to > detect when this DSL interface (ppp0) comes back and does not restore > the gateway through this link. The loadbalancing script has to be run > again to make the kernel treat this gateway as LIVE and make the > traffic go out through it. > > Has anyone encountered a similar problem ? I have never come across > such an issue wherever the link is terminating on an ethernet > interface. This ISP is insisting on dialling and then establishing the > a PPOE interface. Any suggestions ? > > Thanks, > > Manish > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list > LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc