Linux and Multiple Internet Uplinks: a New Tool
"Linux has been able do multipath routing for a long time: it means being able to have routes with multiple gateways and to use them in a (weighted) round-robin fashion. But Linux is missing a tool to actively monitor the state of internet uplinks and change the routing accordingly. Without it, from a LAN perspective, it's like having a RAID-0: just one uplink goes down and all of your LAN-to-WAN traffic goes down too. Documentation and examples on the subject are lacking; existing solutions are few and deeply integrated in firewall/routing specific distributions. To address these issues, a new standalone tool was just released: Fault Tolerant Router. It also includes a complete (iptables + ip policy routing) configuration generator."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/03/03/1910206
Cheers, Peter
Cool, been looking for something like this for far too long ...
From: Peter Reutemann fracpete@waikato.ac.nz To: wlug List wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2015 9:56 AM Subject: [wlug] Linux and Multiple Internet Uplinks: a New Tool
"Linux has been able do multipath routing for a long time: it means being able to have routes with multiple gateways and to use them in a (weighted) round-robin fashion. But Linux is missing a tool to actively monitor the state of internet uplinks and change the routing accordingly. Without it, from a LAN perspective, it's like having a RAID-0: just one uplink goes down and all of your LAN-to-WAN traffic goes down too. Documentation and examples on the subject are lacking; existing solutions are few and deeply integrated in firewall/routing specific distributions. To address these issues, a new standalone tool was just released: Fault Tolerant Router. It also includes a complete (iptables + ip policy routing) configuration generator."
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/03/03/1910206
Cheers, Peter
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