[Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
Dear Friends, In our Office we are having 8 Desktop Client Machines and 10 Laptops with Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1 etc., We are getting Internet Connection from two ISPs. BSNL (ADSL Dynamic IP) and Sify (Private IP and not public). Both are 1 MBps. BSNL is Configured to a wireless Router and Sify is configured in a wired switch. BSNL connection is often going down. So the laptop users cannot get internet through wireless. So, we need an alternate solution by configuring a desktop machine, to get both the ISP lines from two LAN cards. and an output from the third LAN card should give the trouble free Internet through Wireless. If any one line is down then the other one should take up automatically, even if any link is very slow then the other one should take up automatically. Please guide me how to configure these setup. and if there is any software please mention it. It should be truly open source. -- With Regards, RK, +91 9976294191 ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
Greetings, On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:28 PM, R.Kanagaraj (RK) kanagaraj...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, Connection from two ISPs. BSNL (ADSL Dynamic IP) and Sify (Private IP and the other one should take up automatically. Please guide me how to configure these setup. and if there is any software please mention it. It should be truly open source. pfsense? Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:28 PM, R.Kanagaraj (RK) kanagaraj...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, In our Office we are having 8 Desktop Client Machines and 10 Laptops with Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1 etc., We are getting Internet Connection from two ISPs. BSNL (ADSL Dynamic IP) and Sify (Private IP and not public). Both are 1 MBps. BSNL is Configured to a wireless Router and Sify is configured in a wired switch. BSNL connection is often going down. So the laptop users cannot get internet through wireless. So, we need an alternate solution by configuring a desktop machine, to get both the ISP lines from two LAN cards. and an output from the third LAN card should give the trouble free Internet through Wireless. If any one line is down then the other one should take up automatically, even if any link is very slow then the other one should take up automatically. Please guide me how to configure these setup. and if there is any software please mention it. It should be truly open source. Remember that you can only load balance outgoing IP traffic. Even traffic shaping can only be done on outgoing traffic. If you want full link aggregation you should keep the same setup on the ISP side also. I dunno about Linux. With OpenBSD you can do this with trunk(4) interfaces. You can also use equal cost multipath routing. Or you can use BGP if there are BGP speakers. The final way is by using pf(4) to do route-to() between the two outgoing interfaces. In other words there are 4 ways to achieve this. With OpenBSD which is truly open source unlike Linux. -Girish ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
Hi, On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: With OpenBSD which is truly open source unlike Linux. Please avoid trolling/posting flame baits like the one above. Thanks Regards, Guruprasad ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 14:53 +0530, Guruprasad wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: With OpenBSD which is truly open source unlike Linux. Please avoid trolling/posting flame baits like the one above. how is it a troll or flame bait? He is entitled to express an opinion - an opinion held by many people -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
Hi Kanagaraj, Here is the guide on how to setup the failover load balancing net connection in linux. http://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/archive/how-to-load-balancing-failover-with-dual-multi-wan-adsl-cable-connections-on-linux/ Try this and share your experiences. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: With OpenBSD which is truly open source unlike Linux Oh ya, OpenBSD is truly, honestly, evidently, obviously a better, greater open source software than Linux, but please stop trolling! Nobody is discussing about the merits of BSD or Linux or Open Source here. Is it any requirement that this list should have n flames per month or so? Anyway IMHO we already had enough flame-war for this year; So you can postpone flame baiting till next year. Thanks. -- *அகிலன்* (Akilan R) ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:31 +0530, akila...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: With OpenBSD which is truly open source unlike Linux Oh ya, OpenBSD is truly, honestly, evidently, obviously a better, greater open source software than Linux, but please stop trolling! how is this trolling? Nobody is discussing about the merits of BSD or Linux or Open Source here. why not? -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
Hi, On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:31 +0530, akila...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: With OpenBSD which is truly open source unlike Linux Oh ya, OpenBSD is truly, honestly, evidently, obviously a better, greater open source software than Linux, but please stop trolling! how is this trolling? Nobody is discussing about the merits of BSD or Linux or Open Source here. why not? Because this thread is about something else as the subject says. If there are other things to be discussed, you can start a separate thread and talk your heart out there and back your opinions with facts and reasons. Thanks Regards, Guruprasad ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:56 +0530, Guruprasad wrote: why not? Because this thread is about something else as the subject says. If there are other things to be discussed, you can start a separate thread and talk your heart out there and back your opinions with facts and reasons. right - I missed that point -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
I dunno about Linux. With OpenBSD you can do this with trunk(4) interfaces. You can also use equal cost multipath routing. Or you can use BGP if there are BGP speakers. The final way is by using pf(4) to do route-to() between the two outgoing interfaces. In other words there are 4 ways to achieve this. As Girish and Rajgopal suggested, FreeBSD is the ideal solution for you. I suggest you use pfsense http://www.pfsense.org/ which will give you a easy to use web interface to configure all this. Ideally, use a dedicated box with CF card running pfsense. You could get a Soekris Embedded box ( http://www.soekris.com/index.htm) and install pfsense/freebsd on it. Very solid solution. We have been using this type of solution for years without almost no issues. Thanks Gourav ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:28 PM, R.Kanagaraj (RK) kanagaraj...@gmail.com wrote: Both are 1 MBps. Before you start playing around with load balancing links, may I suggest that you first upgrade your DSL bandwidth? 4Mbps unlimited DSL schemes are Rs 1500 to Rs 2000 per month. These are typically residential DSL schemes, but the ISPs are not too strict and I know several folks who are using it at work. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Load Balancing two ISPs.
In our Office we are having 8 Desktop Client Machines and 10 Laptops with Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1 etc., We are getting Internet Connection from two ISPs. BSNL (ADSL Dynamic IP) and Sify (Private IP and not public). Both are 1 MBps. BSNL is Configured to a wireless Router and Sify is configured in a wired switch. BSNL connection is often going down. So the laptop users cannot get internet through wireless. So, we need an alternate solution by configuring a desktop machine, to get both the ISP lines from two LAN cards. and an output from the third LAN card should give the trouble free Internet through Wireless. If any one line is down then the other one should take up automatically, even if any link is very slow then the other one should take up automatically. Please guide me how to configure these setup. and if there is any software please mention it. It should be truly open source. May be this will help you: http://zeroshell.net/eng/ http://zeroshell.net/eng/Share your experience with us. Regards Ravi Kumar Tenneti ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
