Redundance / Balance two links.

[Rick Stevens]

WipeOut wrote:
> 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..

Did you look at the bonding driver?  If you have the kernel source
installed, it's in
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt.
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