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Re: load balance uplinks

This is a discussion on Re: load balance uplinks within the Linux Networking forums, part of the Linux Forums category; Snowbat wrote: > http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html > It does state "note that balancing ...


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Old 11-30-2006
freightcar
 
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Default Re: load balance uplinks

Snowbat wrote:

> http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html
> It does state "note that balancing will not be perfect, as it is route
> based, and routes are cached. This means that routes to often-used sites
> will always be over the same provider."


ok I don't expect it to be perfect, it just seems to me that it does not
work at all (in my case)

> if the active route goes down, no route will be used.
>
> So write a script to regularly check your connectivity and remove/add
> routing as appropriate? Multiple Links does not imply automatic
> fallover redundancy.


I was thinking about such a script in first place, but then I would not
need multiple routing tables. I just (wrongly) assumed it would detect
dead route.
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