On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, John P wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know there's been lots of discussion about 'load balancing' in the past,
> over two similar link types.
>
> I want to do something a little different but in the same vein. Our company
> currently has a 2mb ADSL line, and for the most part it works great.
> However, we might be taking on a leased line in the future, as we have a
> mailserver/transaction server that we would like to ensure is always online.
> (Always is a relative term, of course, compared to the DSL!). This will
> probably only be 64k though.
>
> Anyway, what I would like to do is ensure all WWW/outgoing mail/downloads et
> al goes over the 2mb line (fast, no bandwidth charges!) but the 'important'
> traffic (incoming mail, incoming www requests) goes over the leased line.
> Also if the DSL line fails, everything needs to go over the leased line.
>
> Is it possible with LEAF? Where to start looking?
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> --
> John Portwin
>
>
If you can separate traffic type by IP address, then yes -- these are
possible. However, LRP does not currently have the ability to route
based on tags. In other words, we can use the QoS tools to tag traffic
types, but we can't then say "tag 1 uses x.x.x.x for its default
gateway, and everything else uses y.y.y.y". Supposedly this is being
worked on, but I think the work is only being done in the 2.4 tree
(which won't be realistic on LRP for a while).
I've been trying to do the same thing for a while now, and it looks like
OpenBSD will be able to do it -- I'll try to post to this list if I have
success.
--
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
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