 | | | connecting to 2 isps | connecting to 2 isps 2004-08-02 - By Gregory Gulik
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I'm sure it could work but you probably won't be too happy with the
quality of the load balancing. When I got two lines I started to build
a Linux router, bought a Cisco and a couple other cheaper routers. I
came to the conclusion that making a general router do load balancing
like this effectively is just not worth the effort.
I recommend a box made for just that purpose. I'm using the Xincom
XC-DPG502 router with two high speed wireless lines. It does a pretty
good job of load balancing the two different speed lines.
There are other products but they cost a LOT more than the Xincom.
Saravana Kumar wrote:
> I am running redhat9 in my gateway machine.
> Presently i have a DSL connection which is working all right.
> Now i have got one more connection for backup.
>
> What i want to do is to use both effectively. The goal is to use both of
> them in parallel. So i dont have to worry if one goes down(the other
> connection should handle all requests).
>
> I have got one more NIC card in the system and tried to configure it. But
> failed. As i configured the new nic with the static ip given by new isp it
> sets the new isps gateway as default and i couldn't able to connect neither
> of them
>
> Present config
> eth0 --> ip by isp1
> eth1 --> internal ip
> tried with
> eth2 --> ip by isp2
>
> restart network
> route -rn --> shows isp2's gateway as default gateway.
>
> Googled and found many things that weren't relevent for me. Some were dead
> ends. I think i am searching in wrong places.
>
> i understand i have to use iproute2 or routed daemon.
>
> can someone shed some light on it? Thanks for any pointers.
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