Load balancing two ADSL routers - any recommendations?

[Victor Padro]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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BTW, What other things/services will be active in your server?

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