Load balancing two ADSL routers - any recommendations?

[Chris G]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:21:46AM -0400, David Curtis wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:00:03 +0000
> Chris G <cl at isbd.net> 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.  I've found various bits and pieces of information about
> > doing it myself (scripts using 'nexthop' and 'weight' in ip commands,
> > etc.) but I was wondering if there are any ready made applications
> > which would make things easier for me.
> > 
> > I have found 'balance' but it seems more oriented towards balancing
> > load on multiple servers in my LAN rather than balancing load between
> > two routers linking to the internet.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for ready made load balancing
> > software for Ubuntu?
> 
> I'm not sure if there are any front ends and/or routing packages that
> make this easy, but here is the pertinent section of the Linux Advanced
> Routing & Traffic Control Howto:
> 
> http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html
> 
Yes, I'd found that, it's among the "bits and pieces of information
about doing it myself", I may end up doing it that way as there seems
very little available in this area.

-- 
Chris Green