On 01/11/05 21:39 +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > 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. > So I asked a few networking people for advice, and their conclusions matched mine.
You will have to policy route your packets, and handle the failover with appropriate scripts. Handling dynamic IPs and changing default gateways just makes things harder, but nothing impossible. I would recommend getting a dedicated circuit with a SLA instead. 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
