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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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. |