Load balancing two ADSL routers - any recommendations?
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Sun Nov 1 10:29:06 UTC 2009
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:34:43PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > I have two phone lines and two ADSL routers running with different
> > ISPs. These provide internet access for a small network of (mostly)
> > Ubuntu linux machines.
> >
> > I am setting up a small 'server' machine which, among other things, I
> > would like to handle the internet access by providing load sharing
> > and failover.
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> Others have suggested various options like pfsense and ebox and you've
> rejected them because they would more or less take over your machine.
> Based on my experience, I'd recommend that you separate the
> routing/firewalling from the server not because the server can't handle
> it but because quite often, you have different upgrade cycles on those
> things. If you don't want two physical machines, run the server in a
> virtual machine and let the physical machine, or another virtual
> machine, act as the router/firewall. Complex networking like you have in
> mind in a virtual machine is probably more challenging but it's not
> impossible, depending on the virtualization technology you employ.
That's a possibility I guess, I already use VirtualBox quite a lot on
my desktop so I'm familiar with that.
On the other hand I don't want a firewall at all in the server, just
the ability to do the routing.
--
Chris Green
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