[wplug] loadbalancing over multiple network connections

Mike Griffin mike at dmrnetworks.com
Wed Aug 13 15:39:00 EDT 2003


A google search (http://www.google.com/linux) turned up this article. 
It looks to be what you're looking for, or a good start.
This was my search criteria:
using two ISPs multiple interfaces

Here's the page:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0107.3/0028.html

Mike


On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 03:00  PM, Duncan Hutty wrote:

> Could someone suggest where I should be looking (or search terms for 
> googling) to learn about the following?
>
> My company currently has a single ISP. We are considering getting 
> network connectivity (mainly) for redundancy. I think it is fairly 
> straightforward to configure such that network traffic is sent over 
> eth1 instead of eth0 in the event of the connection to eth0 going > down.
>
> What I am interested in is using both connections all the time so that 
> all hosts on my local network can benefit from the extra bandwidth as 
> well as having a failover process so that when one connection fails 
> all traffic is sent over the other. In case, it's not obvious I am 
> referring primarily to traffic originating on the local network 
> destined for the outside since there is little incoming traffic 
> origniated externally.
>
> I started in tldp.org howtos and the nag, but I can't seem to get 
> anywhere.
> Any pointers, even to deadtree material, gratefully received.
> -- 
> Duncan Hutty
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