[Openswan Users] OpenSWAN load balancing setup

[plug bert]

bump...thanks



--- On Tue, 7/6/10, plug bert <plugbert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: plug bert <plugbert at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Openswan Users] OpenSWAN load balancing setup
> To: users at openswan.org
> Date: Tuesday, 6 July, 2010, 2:49 PM
> Hello,
> 
> 
>     Please advise if the following setup will
> work; end goal is to distribute VPN traffic over the two
> ISPs, and possibly set up automatic failover.
> 
>     Say that the OpenSWAN box is configured as
> follows:
> 
>                
>              
>    +------------>(eth0) ISP1
>                
>              
>    |
> subnet1 <-->(eth2) OpenSWAN box--+
>                
>              
>    |
>                
>              
>    +------------>(eth1) ISP2
> 
> If i configure load balancing over the two links via
> iproute command
> 
> ip route add default scope global nexthop via $ISP1 dev
> eth0 weight 1 nexthop via $ISP2 dev eth1 weight 1 
> 
> 
> and set 
> 
> leftnexthop=%defaultroute
> 
> 
> will this do the job? tia
> 
> 
> 
> 
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