[LARTC] Load balancing / Traffic shaping project looking for help

[LARTC] Load balancing / Traffic shaping project looking for help

[Aaron Wolfe]

Hi,

I've managed to create a web based interface to some of the advanced
routing capabilities in Linux.  Currently it is functional (and
pretty, i think :) although far from perfect.  I'm looking for people
with better programming skills and/or understandings of advanced
routing concepts in Linux than I have who'd like to help out with the
project.

The overall goals are:
#1 to make advanced routing and traffic shaping very easy for those
just getting started
#2 allow admins to easily backup or restore multiple versions of an
entire linux router's configuration (fw, routing, traffic shaping,
interface settings etc) via a single text file, much like a cisco
router
#3 make it all pretty enough that the nontechnical CIO types say "wow"
and let us use linux routers in production more often.

The current system is a collection of perl CGI scripts and a
background process that keeps an eye on things.  It supports high
availability via the heartbeat project and uses Julian Anastasov's
kernel patches to support load balanced routing with dead gateway
detection.  The background process can start a dialup connection if
all other connections have failed.
rrdtool is used to generate lots of pretty graphs locally, and the
system supports snmp and zabbix remote monitoring.

If you're interested (and especially if you'd like to help!) please
check out the project page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdtrg/

thanks
-Aaron
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Re: [LARTC] Load balancing / Traffic shaping project looking for help

[micah milano]

This looks really nice! I really would like to try it out, but there
is no code on the sourceforge site released yet. Unfortunately I am
not the person you are looking for as my understanding of the advanced
routing concepts is not that good yet, thats why I am interested in
your tool :)

How much of this actually works?

micah


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:59:07 -0500, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've managed to create a web based interface to some of the advanced
> routing capabilities in Linux.  Currently it is functional (and
> pretty, i think :) although far from perfect.  I'm looking for people
> with better programming skills and/or understandings of advanced
> routing concepts in Linux than I have who'd like to help out with the
> project.
> 
> The overall goals are:
> #1 to make advanced routing and traffic shaping very easy for those
> just getting started
> #2 allow admins to easily backup or restore multiple versions of an
> entire linux router's configuration (fw, routing, traffic shaping,
> interface settings etc) via a single text file, much like a cisco
> router
> #3 make it all pretty enough that the nontechnical CIO types say "wow"
> and let us use linux routers in production more often.
> 
> The current system is a collection of perl CGI scripts and a
> background process that keeps an eye on things.  It supports high
> availability via the heartbeat project and uses Julian Anastasov's
> kernel patches to support load balanced routing with dead gateway
> detection.  The background process can start a dialup connection if
> all other connections have failed.
> rrdtool is used to generate lots of pretty graphs locally, and the
> system supports snmp and zabbix remote monitoring.
> 
> If you're interested (and especially if you'd like to help!) please
> check out the project page:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kdtrg/
> 
> thanks
> -Aaron
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