Interface bonding

Pete Graner pgraner at canonical.com
Mon Nov 30 16:37:56 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:16:29AM -0430, Santiago Zarate wrote:
> Hi!, actually i have few days trying out how to enable interface bonding (http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-bonding.html) 
> on one of my networks, i actually have only two ethernet interfaces... one is a direct line from the ISP (Adsl), and the 
> other one is inside my network, so the router is another machine... (Pretty much the same i guess)
> 
> What i want... is my server A, load balance both links... this network is not a big one (only 80 Users... ) but on 
> another one... (another building) i've got arround 700 users... and 7 ADSL lines...  and there would be a really big 
> difference if we could load balance at least 3 links... 

You want load balancing not bonding. I wrote up how I did this with 2x
DSL lines on my blog:

http://blog.redvoodoo.org/2009/08/policy-based-routing-over-2-dsl-lines.html

Hope it helps.

~pete
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