kashani <kashani-list <at> badapple.net> writes: > Here's the rub, load balancing outbound traffic is easy. Turn on > advanced routing in your kernel, recompile, reboot, add your two default > gateways and you're now using both connections. IIRC Linux does per > connection load sharing, not per packet so a single TCP stream can not > use the aggregate connection speed of both pipes.
Well, I have not been active is complex routing solutions, lately, hence the inquiry as to available multi-homed solutions circa BGP. > However load balancing incoming traffic is hard even with BGP. I'd be > very surprised if either of your ISP's let you run BGP with them other > than announcing a default 0.0.0.0/0 route to you via a private AS > number. Assuming you even get that far I'm positive that their filters > are going to swallow any route announcement specific enough to modify > your traffic. Without BGP you have no redundancy for incoming traffic. > Here's an example. So BGP-4 is still the only solution to multi-homed networks.....? Here's one treatise on the subject: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nagami-mip6-nemo -multihome-fixed-network-03.txt Thanks for your input. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
