[ale] Load Balancing Across Multiple Interfaces

[Ronald Chmara]

On Apr 23, 2004, at 10:29 PM, Ronald Chmara wrote:

>> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 17:09, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I have been googling for information on configuring two
>>> interfaces to respond to the same ip address in order to
>>> share the load of requests and possibly provide some
>>> fail-over.
>>>
>>> I have found a lot of information on multiple ip's per nic
>>> but not multiple nics per ip.
>>>
>>> Could someone point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>
> Get an ip address (or two, or whatever). Bond it to "lo" (not a card, 
> but in the box).
> In the router upstream, make static routes for those ip addies, 
> pointing to each separate card.
>
> linux box:
> 111.111.111.110 (eth0)
> 111.111.111.111 (eth1)
> 111.111.111.112 (lo:1)
> 111.111.111.113 (lo:1)

er, lo:2

-Bop