On Friday 18 Jan 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On 18-Jan-08, at 11:54 AM, Raj Mathur wrote:
> > Got myself a second Internet link (Airtel) yesterday and was
> > fooling around trying to get traffic multiplexed over both the new
> > and the existing (MTNL) links.  It's working now, and on some
> > applications I'm getting up to 512Kb/s speeds over my 2 256Kb/s
> > connections.  Have documented the process in a short document that
> > explains what you need to do to load balance traffic over multiple
> > Internet links:
> >
> > http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/LoadBalancing
>
> what happens if one interface goes down - does it screw up the dns?

Well, it screws up half your connections.  The commands I've given are 
for a rudimentary setup: no dead gateway detection, etc.

OTOH, if one interface goes down you can always

  /etc/init.d/networking restart

(or equivalent) to get back to your single-point access setup.

Regards,

-- Raju
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