Re: load balance [OT?]

[Mark Perry <rita.co.ltd@googlemail.com>]

Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 00:09 +0700, Mark Perry wrote:
>> Martin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 23:51 +0700, Mark Perry wrote:
>>>> Martin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> #Rules for ISPs
>>>>>> ip rule add $ISP1_IP table 1
>>>>>> ip rule add $ISP2_IP table 2
>>>>>>
>>>> Are these rules working?
>>>> shouldn't they be:
>>>>
>>>> ip rule add from $ISP1_IP table 1
>>>> ip rule add from $ISP2_IP table 2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> mark
> 
>>> Actually the do work. Why they shouldn't?
>>>
>>>
> 
>> I tried then on a system at hand (OK 2.6.16 with iproute2 2.6.15) and I 
>> got a parse error without the "from".
>>
>> I'm no expert (an enthusiast maybe) - just another pair of eyes ;-)
>>
>> mark
> 
> 
> Mmmm...don't know...could it be a different iproute package?
> 
> I've installed a Debian "apt-get" one.
> 
> #dpkg -l | grep iproute
> 
> ii   iproute			20061002-3
> 
> 
> May be I can try downloading source and compiling
> 
> Thanks for the extra eyes :)

Well the important thing is do (after a reboot and rerun of your shell 
script):

ip route show
ip route show table 1
ip route show table 2
and
ip rule show

Produce the expected results?

mark