Topic: multiple uplinks ??

[funkusmunkus]

Hi all,

here's the deal, there are currently 2 connections an ADSL and a cable connection, SME server is the gateway for the cable connection, and there is an ADSL router for the other, the way I have been working around it has been use the DHCP from the router, and leave that as the default gateway, and make your proxy server the SME server.
to me that's a work around but not ideal, what I was after is having one SME server to be the gateway for both, I wanted to use each connection for specific services, and as a back up for the other.

Anyone ever tried something like that on SME ??
here's some info
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.shtml

cheers

[gordonr]

Anyone ever tried something like that on SME ??
here's some info
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.shtml

No, but I'm very interested in working with you to build this. It shouldn't be terribly hard to have multiple external links in a load-balanced or failover configuration.

Can we move this over to the devinfo list?

[funkusmunkus]

No, but I'm very interested in working with you to build this. It shouldn't be terribly hard to have multiple external links in a load-balanced or failover configuration.

Can we move this over to the devinfo list?

I'm up for it, but seeing as this would be my first "development project" I work on, where do we start ??

I'll start my research anyway, and I'll see what I can come up with.

cheers

[gordonr]

I'm up for it, but seeing as this would be my first "development project" I work on, where do we start ??

The first step, and the one which *really* helps is for someone to do the research into what is required. Then carefully modify the config files, noting down *all* changes.

If you carefully and completely document how to get from the standard install to the specific configuration required, the hard bit is done.

We can then work together to turn that into templates and code.

Anyway, let's take this over to the devinfo list.

[dbahler]

I'm only a newbie, but maybe this is place to start.
Take a look at www.skypipes.com
It's based on Redhat, Apache, SSH, PostgreSQL, SSL, and PHP. There is lots of detailed info for install and config, but talks about kernels and patches and I'm not smart enough know if or how it can be made to work with SME.

[NickR]

It's not a trivial problem to get this to work reliably & I'd favour a dedicated hardware solution.

There are a couple of possible solutions suggested here:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=27592.0

Unfortunately, the Linksys product doesn't appear to be available everywhere (specifically, for me, the UK).