Re: load balancing on more than 1 default routes

[michael chen <michaelc@turbolinux.com.cn>]

Hi rtviado,

Friday, August 03, 2001, 6:02:48 PM, you wrote:



r> Hello,

r>         I just want to ask if there is a facility in the kernel that load
r> balance to different default routes, since i'm using this routes for
r> uplink purposes only (my downlink is via satellite, it doesn't matter
r> where i send my packets uplink as long as it reaches the internet
r> backbone).

r> for example

r>         in my box, I have routes as describe below

r>         destination     gateway         netmask
r>         default         isp1            0.0.0.0
r>         default         isp2            0.0.0.0

r> Want i want is for the kernel to load balance (e.g round robin) uplink
r> packets to isp1 and isp2. If this in is not possible in the current
r> kernel, where in the kernel source files can i start hacking to make this
r> possible?


r> TIA
    As i know, there is a networking driver called bonding ,which can
    load balance sending packets through several ethernet
    connections, both 2.2.X and 2.4.X kernel have this driver.


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Michael Chen                           mailto:michaelc@turbolinux.com.cn