Duh...just do an MX with priorities or dual A records, and they will
alternate.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike M. Quimson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2001 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] linux router
>hi IAN,
> you said dat it only works for outgoing connections. wat if your goin
to host a mail or webserver? TNX!
>
>"Ian C. Sison" wrote:
>
>> three words:
>>
>> equal cost multipath.
>>
>> It's a kernel advanced routing option. enable it on your favorite
kernel;
>> and grap the iproute2 package from any distro mirror - redhat has it on
>> contribs, mandrake 7.2 has it installed stock.
>>
>> After that you can specify several default routes which your kernel will
>> happly load balance.
>>
>> Note that this is for outgoing connections only. Meaning you can have
>> squid "load balance" your HTTP requests via the two routes.
>>
>> you can also specify weights to the individual routes so you can "favor"
>> one over the other ...
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Victor Michael Blancas wrote:
>>
>> > i have one box connected to pldt's dsl using pppoe and another box
>> > connected to zpdee's cable. as of the moment, i'm changing the gateway
>> > setting/proxy setting everytime i want to use one connection. my latest
>> > benchmarks shows that zpdee's is faster by 3-4 times. i'm planning to
put
>> > both connections in one box, anyone here have any experience in
>> > routing/load balancing under linux or is it better to just leave my
setup
>> > as it is?
>> >
>> >
>>
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