Redundance / Balance two links.

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Cristiano Soares wrote:

> Have someone made this 
> http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html to work with FC-1?
>  
> Here is my situation:
>  
> - I have two ADSL lines, and i want to be able to balance and make a 
> redundance with these two links to my local network.
>  
>     - First ADSL router is: 192.168.1.1 (DNS & default Gateway)
>         -(eth0) = 192.168.1.200 (default route)
>  
>     - Second ADSL router is: 192.168.0.254 (DNS & default Gateway)
>         -(eth2) = 192.168.0.200
>  
>     - Local Network is: 192.168.2.1 (eth1) - DHCPD running
>  
> Here is the deal. My network is up and running with the default route 
> through eth0, so I try to test if the redundance thing is working by 
> umpluging the eth0 ethernet cable, to see if the FC-1 box will change 
> its route to be able to keep the network alive through eth2 (my other 
> ADSL line), but it turns out all the client machines in the network 
> stop communicating with the internet. So, i hope anyone have had this 
> problem before, and even more hopefully solved it. A real working 
> script would be so great. Thanks a lote FC community.
>  
>  
> Cristiano Soares

I think it can be done but the amount of time it will take will probably 
not be worth it.. There are devices available now that will do all that 
for you and some can take up to 4 DSL lines.. They are also not that 
expensive, if I remember correctly they started at about £200 and will 
provide a better solution IMO..

Later..