multiple incoming lines

G Bryant bsdt at roamingsolutions.net
Tue Sep 20 09:56:57 PDT 2005


Thanks for the help.
I am trying to do load-balancing using 2 ISP's.  Mostly traffic from the 
LAN.
I will look at possible routing, but don't see how I can manipulate 
outgoing packets to split the outgoing load between the two external NIC's.
Anybody done this before?
Thanks
Gray


vladone wrote:

>U have (for set 2) this rules to divert packets that outgoing:
>$cmd 10050 set 2 divert natd2 ip from any to any out via $ext_if1
>$cmd 10050 set 2 divert natd2 ip from any to any out via $ext_if2
>I dont understand what u want to do?
>This rules translate all adress that outgoing throught $ext_if1 and
>$ext_if2 with address indicated by natd2. Divert and route is two
>thinks completly different.
>  If u want to route packets to different
>outgoing interfaces, need to use different routes. (man route).
>  If u want to outgoing packets with different addresses, but same
>interface, need to use divert (and need to put alias for external
>interface with addresses that u need).
>  If u want to make so named load balancing, when use to lines for
>incoming trafic that sumarize bandwidth then is more complicated.
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