Load balanced, failover internet connections

Aaron O'Hara ajeo at hungryforlife.org
Sun May 22 02:45:58 UTC 2005


I'm referring to an environment where an office has 1 FC Firewall with 2
different ISPs providing internet access.  While both are up, utilize
both (perhaps with a preference to one if there are different caps),
when one goes down, use the one that's up.

-- Aaron

On Sun, 2005-22-05 at 09:28 +0800, Lai Zit Seng wrote:
> Are you referring to having highly-available network access to your single 
> FC2/3 box?
> 
> I suppose in that case you should at least be looking at having at least 
> two network links to two different network switches in the same logical 
> network, and have both ports run together as a bridge.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> .lzs
> --
> Lai Zit Seng
> http://thinkingfarm.com/~lzs/
> 
> On Sat, 21 May 2005, Aaron O'Hara wrote:
> 
> > What scripts/urls are you using to have load balanced, failover ready
> > internet connections on single FC2/3 box?
> >
> > I've only seen a couple simple load balancing routing table howto's.
> 




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