Load balancing two ADSL routers - any recommendations?
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Oct 31 16:59:57 UTC 2009
On 10/30/2009 07:00 AM, 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. 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?
>
Perhaps searching help.ubuntu.com for 'load balancing' or 'bonding' can
help? I found these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/Trunking
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBonding
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HighlyAvailableNFS
etc. Also:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LinkAggregation
<http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/02/howto-setup-dual-dual-nic-bonding-on.html>
<http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&source=hp&q=ubuntu+%2Bload+balancing+bonding>
<http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1381888&seqNum=3&rll=1>
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