Load Balanced Linux

[Citadel535]

We have two broadband connections and I was wondering if anyone knows of a dedicated load balancing solution for Linux. I want to split the bandwidth between two connections a 30mbps down and 5 up and a 20 down/20 up. I am not looking for fault tolerance, just speed

If anyone knows of anything please let me know. Thanks!

 

[InlineFive]

If you're looking to aggregate into one massive 25/50 pipe you're going to be dissapointed. The best this kind of setup can accomplish is load-balance connections across the two WAN interfaces or direct one kind of traffic to one interface. Thus even any client on "the pipe" would still be limited in download speed by whatever segment it happens to get.

 

[spidey07]

Look for a dual-wan router, it will do what you are asking.

 

[alpineranger]

With the bandwidth aggregation, it's called trunking, not load balancing. I've seen some network hardware that supports this at the device level (intel nics), but I've never used it.

Now if you have, lets say, a vanilla ethernet connection (lets say 100Mbps), and you want to split the bandwidth across two other connections (lets say 30/70 split), you can use linux's traffic shaping to do that. I have done this using iptables and some qos extensions, and it works just fine. Do a google search.

 

[InlineFive]

Right but unless you're using some sort of multiple-connection download manager it will still use one pipe. You can't trunk connections without having two links from one ISP which supports that.

 

[alpineranger]

Yeah, you have to have he proper support for trunking on both ends. It seems like there are two parts of the question - the bandwidth aggregation question on one side and the traffic shaping on the other. These are totally separate.

 

[spidey07]

All of this can be achieved with a dual-wan router.

You guys are making this way more complicated than it needs to be. Trunking, channeling and link aggregation do not come into play here.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: Citadel535
We have two broadband connections and I was wondering if anyone knows of a dedicated load balancing solution for Linux. I want to split the bandwidth between two connections a 30mbps down and 5 up and a 20 down/20 up. I am not looking for fault tolerance, just speed

If anyone knows of anything please let me know. Thanks!

I'm looking for either one of your connections:laugh:
I'll be here all week....

 

[backroger]

Have you tried pfsense??

http://www.pfsense.org/index.p...k=view&id=40&Itemid=43