On 7/19/10 5:45 PM, Stephen Brown wrote: > Thanks Tom.... ignore my last message which is in moderation, I may have > just got it working! > > I set balance=1 and balance=2 and it appears to be functioning as > intended :) > > I can tweak now that the core is up..... >
Right -- I should have mentioned that having a dynamic IP provider as a 'fallback' won't work because DHCP will automatically add the cable default route in the main routing table. Using weights as you are doing simply makes the balancing choose the balance=2 route twice as often as it chooses the balance=1 route. Along that line, howevr, I question why you want to make the DSL your primary provider, given that the cable link is likely to be an order of magnitude faster. My own strategy was to use the DSL line for those things that I *had* to (basically, running my servers) and to use the cable link for everything else. But even if you do it your way, you can still define the DSL provider as 'fallback' and use marking and/or routing rules to direct the bulk of your traffic there. The real benefit that it provides is to put the static default route and the dynamic one in different routing tables. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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