From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Simon Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 22:40:56 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Load Balancing with 2 uplinks Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm building a set of networks for a chain of cyber cafes. The Internet connections are 512k ADSL links which work very unreliably. There are at least a couple of hours each day they do not work. Therefore the owner decided to put two of them in each network, choosing a different ISP to minimize the probability that both fail at the same time (which still happens). If one fails, we now can switch manually to the other. Now, of course, I would like to use the right interface for each connection, either the only one which is working, or which is being less used. All client machines are routed through a proxy server which also controls who may reach Internet at a given time. I have been looking for a solution to this problem for quite a while, but most methods seem to be designed to address the inverse situation, where one server can be reached by more than one links. Is there a way to do this with the Linux 2.4? Thanks in advance. -- Christoph Simon datageo@terra.com.br --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit . _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/