On 04/08/2015 02:22 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Well, in my business, for inbound traffic I use DNS round-robin, for outbound traffic I use a simple 'ip route nexthop' setup.
What you're describing is load balancing over multiple servers, which is not what I though we were discussing, that is multiple default routes and load balancing of Internet connections. If you want to see how real load balancing works, you may want to read up on first hop redundancy protocols and particularly Cisco's Gateway Load Balancing Protocol. With GLBP, there is a virtual router that hands out different MAC addresses, in response to arp requests for the virtual router IP address. There are then multiple routers that respond to the virtual router IP & MAC addresses. This results in load balancing that's transparent to the devices on the local network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-hop_redundancy_protocols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Load_Balancing_Protocol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org