Re: load balance [OT?] [Solution]

[Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>]

On 06/30/08 10:34, Martin wrote:
> Well, I don't know if understood it ok, but I'll try to answer it.

*nod*

> Ping work pretty well for me. Ping each gateway and if them responds 
> and if them are not saturated, load balance works great. If one 
> gateway doesn't responds or it's saturated, traffic switch to the 
> other interface.

Ok.

> About the loop, if one of the gateways goes down, but it still 
> responds because it passes traffic between both nics internally in 
> servers, you can test some things.

Ok, you are deciding to let the loop happen and just detect that it is 
and / or prevent it from happening.  I guess that is another way to 
solve the problem.  IMHO, not having the loop happen is better, but what 
ever works for you.

> Please, keep us updated about your tests or if you can solve it. May 
> be a different thread would be better to keep a track of this.

Um, I'm not testing, that was based on what I have done in the past.



Grant. . . .