[LARTC] Load balancing with failover

[Steen Suder, privat]

Tushar Thakker wrote:
> Hi all,
> i have network setup with 3 gateways and a large number of intranet nodes,
> i want to do automatic load balancing with failover,
> i have put following ip rules and routes,
> 
>         ip rule add prio 222 table 222
>         ip route add default table 222 proto static \
>                 nexthop via $GWE1 dev $IFE1 \
>                 nexthop via $GWE2 dev $IFE2 \
>                 nexthop via $GWE2 dev $IFE3 \
> 
> Now, i also want to do failover,
> but the point is that what shall i need to do about deleting the route cache as soon as some gateway becomes dead or unavailable,
> what the system will do on its own and what we need to do for this,
> i need a help,

AFAIK, You'd have to look at Julian's routepatch(es): 
<http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#routes-2.4>.

Search for "Dead Gateway Detection".

It may not be the entire solution, but a step in the right direction.

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Mvh. / Best regards,
Steen Suder		<http://www.suder.dk/>
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