topic Re: Load balancing in Operating System - Linux

Load balancing

ionut_lascu — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:29:08 GMT

I have a suse linux box and i have 2 ISP.
I need somme advice about load balancing.
What do i need ? what do you recommend to me ?
Thanks.

Re: Load balancing

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:00:39 GMT

Please see:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html#LARTC.RPDB.MULTIPLE-LINKS

Re: Load balancing

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:29:19 GMT

Shalom,

I would recommend establishing two shared connections on the linux box. You might be able to use firestarter for this, maybe not.

Then you can use Round Robin DNS to a squid proxy server and randomly assign users to the two gateways.

gateway1 ip_add
gateway2 ip_add

Round Robin DNS will insure that the ip address will rotate between the two hostnames about 50% of the time. Be careful, round robin is stupid and if one of the connections is down, you need to modify the DNS database to provide an answer to the one working ip address all the time.

SEP