Thomas Fischer wrote:
Hey all,
I need some advise on the best type of set-up under Fedora including
configuration examples to build a «dual-homing» gateway/firewall.
The idea is to have the following set-up
internet_ip_1 internet_ip_2
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------fedora_gateway-----
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internal_network
So that is the network configuration, which will be put into place using
3 physical ethernet cards. I am thinking of bonding the 2 internet
facing ethernet cards but not sure how that would work with the 2
internet ip addresses.
Any suggestions? How would I load balance the access across both networks?
Thanks for the help
Hi Thomas
I looked at the same issue recently (and had a Fedora system some years
ago that did this).
My conclusion was that it was much cheaper and easier (for me) to just
buy something like a Draytek Vigor 2910 router. It has dual WAN inputs,
does load balancing, failover etc. For $380 (Australian) it was the
right solution for me.
If you have the time and energy to invest, then your approach can
certainly work. I never had load balancing and failover working
thought. Just dedicated certain traffic to each connection.
Regards,
Langdon
