[afnog] Fw: Load Balancing btn two ISPs

Raymond Macharia raymond at accesskenya.com
Fri Oct 19 19:01:22 UTC 2007


hi Phil,
At the beginning of the thread I had suggested that he use BGP but he 
indicated that the ISP was not willing hence the complicated solutions 
being suggested here.

Regards

Raymond Macharia

Philip Smith wrote:
> Just curious.... Why are we looking at such complex solutions when BGP
> is well suited to solving this particular problem? ;-)
>
> philip
> --
>
> anyuru francis said the following on 19/10/07 16:48:
>   
>> Well may be I didn't get it but was thinking that you could do
>>  something like Nat on both routers enable GLBP on the ethernet Interfaces.
>>  Enable Interface tracking on the serial Interfaces with Premption enabled
>>  as shown in the Diagram but still I haven't done that yet so wouldn't be
>>  sure 
>>
>> Regards 
>>
>> Francis 
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net>
>> To: anyuru francis <anyfrancis at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: afnog at afnog.org
>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:26:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [afnog] Load Balancing btn two ISPs
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 18 October 2007 09:06, anyuru francis wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Well  I if your routers are both Cisco GLBP would be an
>>> ideal solution for you or you could use pfsense with two
>>> interfaces I think it can do load balancing with round
>>> robin but GLBP can do unequal load balancing.
>>>       
>> AFAIK, GLBP is only supported on IEEE 802.3 interfaces, 
>> i.e., Ethernet.
>>
>> The OP's situation refers to E1-type interfaces (PPP, HDLC, 
>> e.t.c.).
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>>
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