If I were you, I'll use pfSense it has multi WAN capability + Automatic Failover and others only found on expensive routers and best of all you can easily configure this via its web based administration, works even on old i386 hardware. Just my 2 cents worth.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Nelson Serafica <[email protected]>wrote: > I have 2 isp provider (ISPA and ISPB) and I have 1 machine. The 2 isp > provide a modem/router and both of them hook up on the same switch. I > called it "PUBLIC SWITCH". My web server was connected also on the > PUBLIC SWITCH and use ISPA provided ip address and its gateway. > > What I want to do is also use ISPB on the same server. I have only 2 NIC > (1 on PUBLIC SWITCH and 1 on my private network) on my webserver. But > since it was connected on the PUBLIC SWITCH, I can use ISPB. > > I put ip address provided by ISPB as virtual (ifcfg-eth0:1) and the > metric gateway was 1. But I think this won't work as expected. > > Is there a way wherein I can use both ISP and their provided ip block on > my web server (just like a router)? My client is on a tight budget and > don't want to purchase another machine just for a load balancer. But > purchasing another NIC card is ok. > > The OS is CentOS 5.3 with kernel 2.6.18-128.el5. Upon Googling, there is > a patch on the kernel on how to do this but it seems old. Just asking a > recommendation on the list who is expert to this. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- http://jangestre.wordpress.com
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