Re: decent loadbalancing with 2 different ISP's with minimum risks

From: Glen Dosey (doseyg_at_r-networks.net)
Date: 04/16/04

  • Next message: Bryce Porter: "RE: decent loadbalancing with 2 different ISP's with minimum risks"
    To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
    Date: 16 Apr 2004 15:35:17 -0400
    
    

    You might want to have a quick look at the latest (May) issue of Linux
    Journal. It has a relatively pertinent article entitled:

    Policy Routing for Fun and Profit
     by David Mandelstam and Nenad Corbic
     A bargain Net connection gets expensive over its traffic limit. Routing
    mastery will keep bills in check and Net performance snappy.

    It briefly discusses using iproute2 as well as traffic control which you
    might be interested in.

    On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 15:18, P. Deelman wrote:
    > Due to a little mistake i now have 2 broadband connections at home and
    > somehow i want to balance them (2mbit + 1 mbit). I wondered what the
    > most efficient way of doing this is and with possible security risks
    > involved.
    >
    > At the moment i have a nice setup with a statefull designed iptables
    > firewall and i want to keep it that way. I've googled some and i found
    > some vague tools for windows that i really don't trust (well the entire
    > windows part, but that's something else) and a router that has 2 wan
    > connectors that claims that can do it. Since i also have wlan at home in
    > a wlan-dmz at my gateway i just want to insert a 4th nic into my box and
    > do some configging.
    >
    > My current setup includes:
    > debian 3.0 stable 2.4.26 kernel
    > 3 networks: wlan, internal, external
    > statefull iptables-script
    >
    > my future setup needs to include just an extra network namely external2
    > :) without too many implications such as running a proxy with patches
    > which should be the last option to consider since my gateway isn't all
    > that fast :)
    >
    > Any help welcome,
    > Regards,
    > P.Deelman

    -- 
    Glen Dosey
    Network Administrator, R-Networks
    Glen.Dosey@r-networks.net
    

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