On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:03 am, Robert Tillsley wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I'm looking at some equipment that load bales internet connections, ie
> multiple isdn, dsl etc, but it seems pretty expensive.
>
> Has anyone used linux for this sort of thing?
>
> So far in the modest amount of time I've spent searching I've found
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/balance/
>
>
> Has anyone ever used it?
> Any info appreciated
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Tillsley
We use a humble Cisco 1720 to load balance a pair of 2Mbps SDSL lines in the
office. The mechanism is BGRP. Basically we've set it up to do "per
session" load balancing: any given session can never consume more than
2Mbps. It's pretty basic but it works well :) YMMV.
There's a few ways you can achieve this effect with a linux gateway box but
most of the traffic we need to throttle in the office is web/ftp stuff so I
simply use squid's "delay pools". All up the squid proxy plus the router
load balancing means our external web sites have never been unavailable due
to lack of bandwidth :) Our internal users and external web/ftp sites
share the same 2x2Mbps connections.
--James
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