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Old 09-25-2006, 05:11 AM   #1
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Load balancing In Linux Proxy

i have internet connection from 2 ISP's. i have connected both ISP lines in my Linux Proxy via 2 NIC cards. i taken out another one NIC card to clients. ( So totally 3 NICs in Proxy). now the internet is working by using only one ISP line. i want to load balance between 2 ISP. Help me....
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Old 09-25-2006, 08:58 AM   #2
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What routing protocols are you running on that Linux box?

The traditional (and still correct) approach is to run BGP on your exterior router for load balancing between the two ISP's. However, this does require cooperation with both ISP's.

You could rig something up manually, by setting up static routes to some networks through the second ISP. That would be simple, but would require you to guesstimate load "balancing" -- and it would not provide redundancy in case one of your ISP's failed.

It would be really odd, but theoretically you could also use IPVS to implement load balancing. IPVS is designed to load balance incoming traffic, but I can't see why it could not be pressed into service to balance outgoing traffic also. That might be pushing the technical envelope.
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