Re: [LARTC] Load Balance and SNAT problem.

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>]

On 6/27/2007 1:58 AM, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> And DGD based on packet counts IMO is an extremely simple thing to 
> do, I discussed it recently with you.

(If I recall correctly and / or re-read the appropriate thread correctly.)

What you were talking about doing was pinging (of sorts, be it ICMP, 
testing connections, sending layer 7 traffic, etc.) destinations out 
side of your upstream gateway.  Correct?

> If something like this was present in-kernel the world would be a 
> better place.

I agree that if there was a way for the kernel to handle this the world 
would be a better place.  However, I think it silly to expect the kernel 
to do this.

Well let me take a moment to be sure we are thinking the same thing. 
You want the kernel to be able to realize that one route through a given 
default gateway is no good for a given destination and use a different 
default gateway even though the kernel can reach other destinations 
through the first default gateway?  In other words, if the kernel can 
not reach microsoft.com through ISP1 it should use ISP2 despite the fact 
that it can reach google.com through ISP1?



Grant. . . .
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