OT: Load balancing of 2 DSL connection

Stephen W. Clarke stephenc-wtWqQT8woy8 at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 2 13:04:53 UTC 2007


www.hotbrick.ca sells several router type boxes that support load balancing.
Might be worth a look.

Stephen


> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, JM wrote:
>
>>
>> hi,
>> 	does anyone here knows of a good load balancer DSL connections?
>
> You can use iproute2 to load balance the links.  You can even weight the
> links (so if one is twice as fast as the other you can push packets out in
> a 2:1 ratio).  Last time I did this fail-over was not it's strong point.
>
> If you don't want to do that you can split the 'net in 2 (as I did once)
> and route half out one link and half out the other :)
>
> Rob
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