Re: Load balancing across 2 internet connections

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:08 +1000, Tim Edwards wrote:
> We are considering getting a 2nd Internet connection into our main site. 
>   All our gateway and router machines are Linux boxes running RHEL4 and 
> I was wondering what software people here have used for load balancing 
> across multiple links like this?

If you are mostly a server-only shop:
the cheapest and easiest load balancing way is to just have "rotating
DNS", eg 2 different IP's for the same DNS name. It's not fancy and it's
not perfect, but it's a very good 0-order balancing.