[LARTC] load balancing: per route or per interface?

[Carlos Blanquer]

>
> > Get a switch thats supports VLANs ( eg cisco 2950 ), make a vlan trunk
> to pc
> > with 2 ethernet PCIs ( 1 to net , 1 to lan ). Connect each ADSL modem to
> > switch, put each modem on some individual VLAN. Now configure VLANs on
> > network interface on that PC connected to that switch ( i guess it will
> be
> > eth0 ) - you will get as many as you wish virtual interfaces ( like
> eth0.1,
> > eth0.2 and so on ), you can traffic shape on them, use iptables like on
> any
> > other interface...


That is a good solution
Another one is buy those PCI that has 4 ethernet plugs (aka 4 ethernets
integrated into one PCI), then you can get up to 20 ethernets in a MoBo that
has 5 free PCIs.
Is not an elegant solution, but is a fast one.

>
> > --
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Then, will I be able to do load balancing like this?
>
> ip route add default table 221 proto static \
>             nexthop via ${EXTGW1} dev eth0:0 weight 2\
>             nexthop via ${EXTGW2} dev eth0:1 weight 2\
>             nexthop via ${EXTGW3} dev eth0:2 weight 2\
>             nexthop via ${EXTGW4} dev eth0:3 weight 2


Yes.

Also, iptraf will only show traffic for eth0, not the virtual
> interfaces, any workarounds?




Thanks!
>
> Edu
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Atentamente,
              Carlos.
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