From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: N N Ashok Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 06:19:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Equal-cost multipath Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 19 November 2003 03:59, Brett Cav=E9 scrawled: > Hi all, > > I have a network with a Redhat 8.0 gateway. It has 3 nic's, 1 connected > to the lan, and the other 2 connected to ADSL routers. I have configured > split access with load-balancing, using ip rules and ip routes (with > weight 1 for both external interfaces). > > The load-balancing is working to a degree, but is not giving me exactly > what I want - the gateway is caching routes, so if I download a large > file from a site, the route to that site is cached, and it is all > traffic is routed down 1 ADSL connection. What I would like to do is > split the traffic, so that all traffic is split equally down both lines > (equal cost multipath I think). Is what I am trying to do possible, or > should it be working as I have configured it? Is it possible to specify > to the kernel not to cache routes? > > Regards, > > Brett Cav=E9 > =20 > Nerds On-Site > Email: brett@nerdsonsite.co.za > You could use the nano-patch (http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/nano.txt) and the equal= ize=20 option in the multipath route configuration. but from what i understand, th= e=20 traffic is coming 'into' your machine, the splitting of the incoming traffi= c=20 has to occur on the other end of the connection. The nano patch will equali= ze=20 the traffic that goes 'out' of your system. So if somebody downloads data=20 from the gateway, then the data will be split equally (or according to the = weights) over the outgoing connections. hope that helps, ashok _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/