On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 19:45 -0700, Aaron O'Hara wrote: > I'm referring to an environment where an office has 1 FC Firewall with 2 > different ISPs providing internet access. While both are up, utilize > both (perhaps with a preference to one if there are different caps), > when one goes down, use the one that's up. > > -- Aaron > > On Sun, 2005-22-05 at 09:28 +0800, Lai Zit Seng wrote: > > Are you referring to having highly-available network access to your single > > FC2/3 box? > > > > I suppose in that case you should at least be looking at having at least > > two network links to two different network switches in the same logical > > network, and have both ports run together as a bridge. > > > > Regards, > > > > .lzs > > -- > > Lai Zit Seng > > http://thinkingfarm.com/~lzs/ > > > > On Sat, 21 May 2005, Aaron O'Hara wrote: > > > > > What scripts/urls are you using to have load balanced, failover ready > > > internet connections on single FC2/3 box? > > > > > > I've only seen a couple simple load balancing routing table howto's. > > > You could add a second default route to your second ISP with a metric larger than 0. This would make this route less preferred than the first default route. I did a quick scan of /etc/sysconfig/network*, but did not see any provisions for a second default gateway. A simple solution might be to add your second default route in /etc/rc.local (man route). Bob...
