there is. i am assuming you will make a linux box stand as a router/gateway for the two internet connections doing away with regular cisco routers. (im not going into the pros/cons)
so aside from getting a very reliable hardware for your linux box (with raid, good ethernet card and fans), you will need PC WAN cards with synchronous ports capable of at least 2Mbps speeds (E1). take a look at Cyclades-PC300/RSV at http://www.cyclades.com/. they have excellent driver sets for linux. some cards have at most 2 ports so you can buy just one. they are PCI-based so get a motherboard with good pci chipsets. also they appear as an hdlc interface in your linux box (ifconfig hdlc0). they are sold locally too. to do some load-balancing and failover, you will need a dynamic routing software such as Zebra (www.zebra.org) to implement BGP (border gateway protocol) between your linux box and your 2 internet providers. both ISPs must be able to do BGP with you but they may have some restrictions regarding your ip block size. you may have to talk to them, get an appropriate ip block or pay them well. you can choose between the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel but get 2.4 if you need serious firewalling since it's much simpler to do it there. pong --- joel realubit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi guys: > > is there any (linux) way to connect a network to the > internet via TWO > internet connections to TWO ISPs? i mean, the two > connections would share > the load, then if one fails, the other will pick up the > load. can i do all > this with one box, or do i need to look into a > clustering/load-balancing > solution? of course, when one connection is broken, and > the other one picks > up the load, it should be as transparent to the > workstations/clients as > possible... > > i could probably address this to other mailing lists, but > i'm looking > specifically for a linux solution....( i'm uh, slowly > working at introducing > more linux systems into our company eh... hehehehe... ) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
