Re: load balance uplinks

Snowbat wrote:

> http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html
> It does state "note that balancing will not be perfect, as it is route
> based, and routes are cached. This means that routes to often-used sites
> will always be over the same provider."

ok I don't expect it to be perfect, it just seems to me that it does not
work at all (in my case)

> if the active route goes down, no route will be used.
>
> So write a script to regularly check your connectivity and remove/add
> routing as appropriate? Multiple Links does not imply automatic
> fallover redundancy.

I was thinking about such a script in first place, but then I would not
need multiple routing tables. I just (wrongly) assumed it would detect
dead route.


freightcar