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

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Date: 05/10/04

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    >You still need a device to balance the load between VIP1 and VIP2. A
    >downside router will see theses two VIPs as 2 different gateways and
    >still need to have a mechanism to choose which one to use for any packet
    >it sends, the same way it would have to choose between two regular
    >gateways (i.e. without VRRP).

    The obvious advantage is that this is a more robust solution than not
    using VRRP. You can assign different gateways through DHCP or use Policy
    Based Routing (or whatever the linux term is) on a downstream router
    to route to different gateways based on the source IP address.

    The commercial alternative is BigIP with some BGP magic using communities,
     if you happen to route BGP (doubtful).

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