Re: Load balancing between routers

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 13:18:43 EST


On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 09:01:56PM +0100, Roberto Fichera wrote:
> At 21.05 13/09/00 +0300, semat wrote:
>
> >That you probably need to do on the router if you have many routes to your
> >linux box and want to balance them but if you want to load balance
> >multiple linux boxes then you need to cluster and use piranha which has
> >good load balancing. On the router I think OSPF with some costs is all you
> >would need.
> >
> > > How can I configure my linux server (kernel 2.2.x RH6.2) with 2
> > > or more routers with load balancing ?
> > >
>
> I need to redistribute the IP traffic between 2 or more routers when we
> have saturated ~70-80% of the first router's bandwidth.

Linux kernel supports it using equal cost multipath routes (configurable
using iproute2), but the available routing daemons seem no to.

-Andi
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