On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Gino LV. Ledesma wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 12:18:09PM +0800, alben b. alteza wrote:
> > Follow-up question. I this a way to have load balancing between two ISP
> > connection? Can Iptables do this? Or can a firewall using iptables route

This is done not with IPtables but with the kernel networking option call
Equal Cost Multipath, look for it in your favorite kernel and enable it.

> > port 80 request to one ISP and all ports to the other ISP? Is there another
> > package for this in linux?
> >
> You can make iptables simulate a load-balancing effect. What traffic do you want 
>load-balanced anyway?
>

Gino's question has merit: THere are many ways to load balance multiple
network links, only one of which is equal cost multipath.

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