Routing question -- multiple gateway setup?

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:

> Since most traffic thesee days goes through a proxy-cache one option is to

That was badly worded.  I meant most traffic these days is of a type that
_could_ go through a proxy-cache (like squid), eg http.  Thus by only load
balancing tcp/80 you get most of the traffic balanced.

Also, I did not experiment heavily with how well iproute2 copes with link
drops.  IIRC I don't think it was dropping routes when interfaces went
down so some sort of management script may still be needed.  I also found
the multiple routing tables sometimes got out of sync with what the ip
utility was showing.  I had to reboot the test box to clear this up.  This
did not inspire confidence and was part of the reason I dropped the
project in favour of a simpler solution.

Rob

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