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List:       lartc
Subject:    Re: [LARTC] IP Masquerade issues
From:       Stef Coene <stef.coene () docum ! org>
Date:       2004-03-28 15:50:02
Message-ID: 200403281750.02820.stef.coene () docum ! org
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On Wednesday 24 March 2004 18:45, Mario wrote:
> Okay here is my setup:
>
> Gentoo Box running 2.6.4 w/ 4 NICs
> 1 NIC is for internal network
> 3 NICs are for external network
>
> The machine has a static address assigned to the internal network nic. This
> nic runs dhcp and dns forwarding. The other 3 nics have external dynamic IP
> addresses. All will have the same gateway. There are 3 NICs because this is
> a very large pipe, that will only allocate a certain ammount to each client
> ( NIC ).
>
> The way i set this up is so that internal network clients will be routed
> through the 3 nics with their packets sent out in a round robin sort of
> fashion. I found a few sites explaining a bit about how to do this, and the
> current setup i found that somewhat works is this:
>
> A virtual device teql0 is created:
> This virtual device teql0 is an imaginary device using QoS Trivial link
> equalizer (TeQL). It has a static ip address assigned to it. If you attempt
> to ping it from another machine, you wont necessarily be pinging the same
> network card every time.
teql can only be used if you control both sides of the link.  There is a 
chapter in the lartc howto on load balancing that can help you.

Stef

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