[TriLUG] linux routing example

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:27, Frye, Matthew wrote:

> Why not mux the two ifs together so only one source if is visible from the
> outside?  The router could do that.  Did they just want the bandwidth, or
> did they want the two to be visible differently on the outside?  Either way,
> you could set the bandwidth and filter the traffic accordingly, no?
> 

The scenario here is more of switching ISPs.

Commonly, you would have two different routers, one from each T1
provider, and you may not have direct access to their configuration.  If
I understand the setup correctly, each T1 router was connected to a
separate NIC on the server.  This iproute2 method allows you to use both
WAN connections "separately".  It is not really a high-availability or
load-balancing thing, it's merely a way to transition from one provider
to another.

--Jeremy

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