RE: Linux Firewall/LoadBalancer

[Peter Mueller <pmueller () sidestep com>]

> I have two pipes coming into my office.
> I would like to create a  redundant situation with the two 
> networks. I have seen the commercial boxes that do this but I 
> would like to do this with some type of Linux solution.
> So I would like to have one pipe running all the time , then 
> when it fails , have the other take over.

You want the "Dead gateway detection" patch from Julian Anastasov:

Info:
http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/dgd-usage.txt
Howto (easier read):
http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/nano.txt
Patch:
http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/routes-2.4.22-9.diff

Peter


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