Re: load balancing between ppp0 and ppp1, private IPs

[Brian Austin - Standard Universal <brian@standarduniversal.com.au>]

yes, it will.

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Lloyd Standish wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to use load balancing to allow simultaneous use of 2 relatively slow GPRS (ppp over GSM cellular phone) modems.  I have a custom-compiled Ubuntu kernel 2.6.20.3 with Debian Etch, iptables v1.3.8.
>
> The modems are seen by the system as regular serial modems, ppp0 and ppp1.  I also have a LAN (eth0). 
>
> My interfaces, ppp0 and ppp1 have dynamically assigned *private* IP numbers.  For example:
>
> ppp0: 10.60.32.71
> ppp1: 10.40.89.42
>
> My strategy for load balancing is to use conntrack to save the mark of the *first* packet, and mark all subsequent packets for that connection the same way.  Two custom routing tables are set up, each set to push traffic to one of the 2 interfaces, according to the packet mark:
>
> TABLE    INTERFACE    MARK
> rt_link1   ppp0                1
> rt_link2   ppp1                2
>
> My efforts to do load balancing between the 2 interfaces have not been successful.  Before I go into details, a major question:  Will load balancing work without public, routable IP numbers for my outward-facing interfaces?
>
> --
> Lloyd
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