Re: Muilt-home routing question?

[Andrew Miehs <andrew@2sheds.de>]

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On 07/07/2006, at 11:58 PM, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Greg Ryman <gregr@candylogic.com> [2006.07.07.2330 +0200]:
> > actually it's a routing issue, and not a problem in linux. show me
> > another os that you can plug into two different networks on the  
> > same nic
> > and get evenly balanced traffic accross both connections.
>
> I am not asking for this, I know this is not easy to accomplish. Or
> at least not unless you dig iproute.
>
> What I want is that it takes *either* of the routes consistently
> ("the first"), instead of just not working.

Actually it does work, and it does exactly what you suggest in doing  
a 50/50 load balancing between the routes - I think you will find  
however that you have 2 different source addresses, and the box on  
the other side will not know who you are.

Andrew
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