Network Load Balancing

johnciall

I've found myself in the position of having two Internet connections to my apartment [long story]

One is a cable connection and the other is on DSL I'm trying to work out how to configure a linux based machine to act as a load balancer and then pass the connection onto my router

i'm pretty sure i can do the network sharing part but i'm not sure how to set up the balancing between the WAN links


I've put together a PC out of parts i had in the place to do it and i've a faily long list of operating systems too choose from

noclee

Take a look at the following:-
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html

johnciall

You are a gentleman & a scholar, one more question i'm having trouble understanding part of the routing table stuff when it says this:

Finally, let $P1_NET be the IP network $P1 is in, and $P2_NET the IP network $P2 is in.

Am i right in assuming it's looking for the network address of the range?

ntlbell

johnciall wrote: »

You are a gentleman & a scholar, one more question i'm having trouble understanding part of the routing table stuff when it says this:

Finally, let $P1_NET be the IP network $P1 is in, and $P2_NET the IP network $P2 is in.

Am i right in assuming it's looking for the network address of the range?

looks like it's looking for the network the gateway address is in.

e.g. if the gateway was 192.168.1.1/24

the network it's in is 192.168.1.0

noclee

Yes the network is the first ip in the range, all 0's in binary host portion.