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From: "hare ram" <hareram@sol.net.in>
To: Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg@starken.com>,
	netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: load balance problem
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:38:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <030501c2c2b6$ae7c18c0$13fcc5cb@Housecall> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1043301815.2968.5.camel@runabout.noc.starken.com

Hi

The one it installs with Redhat RPM of IPROUTE
is borken AFAIK, better get lastest tar and install
i had same problem, after installing the  new Iproute,  the routes works
fine


hare
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Wittenberg" <daniel-wittenberg@starken.com>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:33 AM
Subject: load balance problem


> I've been trying to test the load balancing in our lab and it doesn't
> appear to be working.  I have a RH 8.0 firewall, which appears to have
> all the specified options set in the kernel .config.  I am running a
> sniffer on both out-going links, and only ever see traffic go down one
> or the other, never both.  It's always the one I list first:
>
> ip route add default scope global equalize \
>         nexthop via 172.27.3.3 dev eth1 weight 1 onlink \
>         nexthop via 172.27.1.1 dev eth0 weight 1 onlink
>
> What looks weird is the output:
> # /sbin/ip route list
> 172.27.15.0/24 dev eth2  scope link
> 172.27.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.27.1.200
> 172.27.3.0/24 dev eth1  scope link
> 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo  scope link
> default equalize
>         nexthop via 172.27.3.3  dev eth1 weight 1 dead onlink pervasive
>         nexthop via 172.27.1.1  dev eth0 weight 1 onlink
>
> The 172.27.3 and .1 are both the external links, but I haven't found an
> explanation for what "dead" and "pervasive" are.  I also don't see those
> showing up in any of the examples I've seen.  So any clues why this only
> goes out the first link?  I first thought kernel or default gateway, but
> made sure the original default gateway was not specified, and the kernel
> appears to be correct.  Something else I've obviously missed?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-23  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-23  6:03 load balance problem Daniel Wittenberg
2003-01-23  8:08 ` hare ram [this message]
2003-01-23 11:52   ` How to Stop scanings hare ram

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