2006/11/22, George Borisov <george@dxsolutions.co.uk>:
James Stevenson wrote: > With iptables with 2 servers using a nat entry you can pick a match rule for > a 50% random connection entry > > Its straight out of the man page. Unfortunately, this is no longer true for Etch (which is what the firewalls have to run for hardware reasons). All of the nice iptables load balancing stuff has been taken out in the latest versions, because there's no support for it in kernels 2.6.11+ :-(
I think , it's quite possible to use layer7 patch for directing smtp "sessions" (that layer7 should be sane of) to specified ROUTEs (patch from patchomatic-ng from netfilter) that would be our smtp servers... regards -- Wojciech Ziniewicz | jid:zeth@chrome.pl http://silenceproject.org | http://zetho.wordpress.com