On Friday 18 Jan 2008, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: > [snip] > http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/LoadBalancing > Quoting from above URL: > - ---->8---->8----Multiple routers > If both your ISP modems are in router mode, you may have issues > getting loadbalancing to work. This is because both the connections > will be using the sameinterface (eth0). (Note that I'm using two > interfaces, ppp0 and eth0, so Idon't face this problem)- > ----8<----8<---- What issues one will experience, hmm...? I did some > similar setup witheth0 connected to a hub, and both internet > connections (PPPoE) terminating to ahub. And used following command > to do setup a default route: ip r a nexthop via $gateway_1 nexthop > via $gateway_2 > All I need is that interface "eth0" has two IPv4 addresses > assignedcorresponding to networks of $gateway_1, and $gateway_2 .
Ah, I hadn't checked out that part of things and was under the impression that load balancing won't work if you have a single interface. If you can confirm that you can do this with both modems in router mode I'll update the document accordingly, thanks. > BtW, did you ever get a chance to verify 'weight' assigned to > networkroutes, hmm...? Nope, haven't tried that. Haven't even tried to download anything heavy yet, just checked that it's possible. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || February 2008 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
