On 01/11/05 20:05 +0530, Sanjay Arora wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:04 +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > > > Am looking for a Router, preferably available with an Indian > > > Distributor, that can provide load-sharing & load-balancing connectivity > > > to two, four or preferably three broadband ISPs and is capable of > > > accepting mix of Static, Dynamic & Private IPs, as provided by different > > > ISPs. > > > > May I suggest Quagga and BGP on suitable hardware? Alternatively, a > > Cisco box might be a better alternative in terms of support. > > Dev > > Mine is a small office network with 256 KBPS Broadband link to which I > want to add one or two more similar links for load-sharing & fault- > tolerance.
In which case take any box with multiple interfaces, NAT and add equally weighted default routes on all interfaces. Fault tolerance isn't exactly fun in this case, but load balancing is automatic. > > Do ISPs provide BGP to the broadband customer termination? Anyone with You would need a /24 and an AS#. > knowledge of actual practice in this respect. I don't remember seeing a > single BGP packet on my link. I think that BGP is terminating on > Perimeter routers of the ISP...Comments? > > I use IPcop for my Firewall & Internet Gateway, though am still to > protect outbound connections. Way planning to use iproute2 for load > partitioning on that box itself. Any pros on discarding the IPcop and > using a minimal linux install with Quagga or any other Zebra fork or any > other software? > If you are limiting yourself to static routing, you don't need quagga or equivalent. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
