Can this be used on a machine that is functioning as a router? Can I put IPTables on a machine, give it three outside interfaces, each with their own gateway and a fourth inside interface on my network and have it use those three outbound interfaces in a round robin manner?
/B Teodor Georgiev wrote: > no, the solution is very simple. > > 1. set up 3 default gateways on the system (1 for every card) with equal > "prices". > This will do fair loadbalancing between all of them and failover - if > one or 2 > of them fail - the traffic will go through the other available route. > > 2. iproute tools is your friend for more complexed configurations. Read the > "Advanced Routing howto" > > T.G. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Busby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:52 AM > Subject: Re: Out bound traffic Load Balancing Across 3 nic's. > > > >>Matthew, >>I don't know of any software off hand but I needed a similar solution, >>what I did was read/learn from this book: >> >>Unix Network Programming - Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI >>W. Richard Stevens >>ISBN: 0-13-490012-X >> >>Matthew Scarrow wrote: >> >>>Is it possible and what software could I use to Load Balance network >> > traffic > >>>across 3 nic's. Also to build up some form of redundancy I would like to >> > be > >>>able to redirect traffic if one of the cards fail or the line is down >> > for > >>>some reason. >>> >>>Anyone have some good pointers for me. Thanks. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Matthew Scarrow >>>ComIT Solutions Inc. >>>www.comit.ca >>>Phone: 519-442-0100 >>>Fax: 519-442-0429 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >>-- >>redhat-list mailing list >>unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >>https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
