Re: [squid-users] How to "balance" outgoing traffic?

On Jan 25, 2008 9:19 PM, Gabriele <tech@newcomsrl.it> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I hope this is the right place to ask. I have googled a lot, but I
> couldn't find an answer to my problem.
>
> My setup is a Debian 4 box which acts as a iptables router/firewall,
> squid 2.6.18 + dansguardian 2.0.8.6.
>
> There are 3 xDSL connections available, and the request I have to deal
> with, is to let the server choose the proper xDSL connection for
> outgoing traffic.
>
> For example, as soon as xDSL no.1 reaches 80% of the available
> bandwidth, the subsequent traffic goes to xDSL no.2, and so on.
>
> I don't know if this can be properly called "load balancing", but as a
> result, the outgoing web traffic has to be shared among all of the
> available xDSL's.
>

Hi,

This concept is knows as Multirouting. Details for configuring can be
found at this page but here the detail is not given if the first dsl
connection is 80% consumed divert to 2 second rather it says load
balance your web traffic among all the 2/3 connections

http://lukecyca.com/2004/09/28/howto-multirouting-with-linux/

Regards

Ankush
Received on Fri Jan 25 2008 - 10:23:48 MST