Re: routing traffic over Multiple lines

[Tim Wolfe <]

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Rushdul Mannan wrote:

> > Dennis Millerson wrote:
> > 
> > > Picture this: one hdsl line / one cable modem / one leased line , all from
> > > different providers can these be integrated ?
> 
> I would have thought running some route daemon and using equal weighted 
> statics would take you some way. A simple IGP w/max-path attribute 
> support would be another option.

Yes but this will only affect outbound traffic, which in most cases is a
very small amount of the traffic.  The trick is to balance the INCOMING
traffic, which would probably best accomplished with some sort of NAT setup. 
The trick would probably be to get your firewall/router to rewrite the
source of your packets such that they were round robinning to the IP's
assigned by the different providers.  I'd have to think about it a little
more, but it should be doable.

-- Tim

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