On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:03:30PM +0100, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:54:15AM +0100, KORN Andras wrote: > > Hi, > > > > we have a 5Mbps symmetric microwave uplink with one static IP and a /30 > > subnet. We're contemplating getting an additional ADSL connection to serve > > as backup. If the ISP cooperates, is there a way for me to load-balance and > > fail over between these two connections using BIRD? If so, how? > > Hmm, load-balancing and multipath is not implemented. The best thing you can > do > with BIRD is to have asymetric routing (one link preferred for upstream and > the other for downstream), or prefix based load-balancing (some prefixes > are preferred over one link and other prefixes are preferred over the other > link).
Could you please describe prefering prefixes over one link with an example please? I happen to need this but haven't figured out yet. - Otto