Thanks for the info James My only concern with cisco is complexity. Things like fatepipe, alteon, sysmaster etc seem to be focused on making it pretty easy to setup...at a price.
Cheers Rob T > -----Original Message----- > From: James Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 7 November 2003 10:38 AM > To: SLUG (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [SLUG] load balancing internet connections > > > 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 > __________________________________ > A random quote of nothing: > > I will make you shorter by the head. > -- Elizabeth I > ************************************************************* This mail, including any attached files may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended receipient (or authorised to receive information for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ************************************************************* -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
