[K12OSN] LokiWall...anyone use it?

John Lucas mrjohnlucas at gmail.com
Fri May 11 19:45:01 UTC 2007


On Friday 11 May 2007 11:59, Huck wrote:
> Just found these guys:  http://www.peplink.com/
>
> Who have the product I seek... yippee!
> for under $1k too.
>
> --Huck
>

Well, going for cheap; how about:

	http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=452

Only $118.70 from CDW. Caveat: I have not used this.

> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 17:33 -0700, Huck wrote:
> >> Has anyone used this http://www.fluence.nl/lokiwall/
> >> for load balancing/dual routing/fail over...of 2 dsl or a dsl and a
> >> cable connection?
> >>
> >> We're finding rapidly that with multiple teachers streaming content from
> >> the web 1.5mb DSL just doesn't get it done anymore.
> >
> > 1. Load up squid proxy for caching!! That will do a lot for reducing the
> > load on the feeble WAN connection.
> >
> > 2. I just loaded a dual-homed server using the following script to
> > provide dual access to 2 WAN connections and load balancing between the
> > two connections. Note: eth1 and 2 are WAN and eth0 in LAN. This machine
> > acts as a router (and also has web sites hosted on both WAN IPs. The
> > only "gotcha" is the LAN can't "see" the web sites on the router
> > machine. I'm working on that...
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > IF0='eth0'
> > IF1='eth1'
> > IF2='eth2'
> > IP0='ip address here for eth0'
> > IP1='ip address here for eth1'
> > IP2='ip address here for eth2'
> > P0='eth0 gateway IP'
> > P1='eth1 gateway IP'
> > P2='eth2 gateway IP'
> > P0_NET='eth0 net'
> > P1_NET='eth1 net'
> > P2_NET='eth2 net'
> >
> > ip route add $P0_NET dev $IF0 src $IP0 table T0
> > ip route add default via $P0 table T0
> >
> > ip route add $P1_NET dev $IF1 src $IP1 table T1
> > ip route add default via $P1 table T1
> >
> > ip route add $P2_NET dev $IF2 src $IP2 table T2
> > ip route add default via $P2 table T2
> >
> > ip route add $P1_NET dev $IF1 src $IP1
> > ip route add $P2_NET dev $IF2 src $IP2
> > ip route add $P0_NET dev $IF0 src $IP0
> >
> > #ip route add default via $P1
> >
> > ip rule add from $IP1 table T1
> > ip rule add from $IP2 table T2
> > ip rule add from $IP0 table T0
> >
> > ip route add $P1     dev $IF1 table T0
> > ip route add $P2     dev $IF2 table T0
> > ip route add $P0     dev $IF0 table T0
> > ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo   table T0
> >
> > ip route add $P0_NET     dev $IF0 table T1
> > ip route add $P2_NET     dev $IF2 table T1
> > ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo   table T1
> >
> > ip route add $P0_NET     dev $IF0 table T2
> > ip route add $P1_NET     dev $IF1 table T2
> > ip route add 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo   table T2
> >
> > ip route add default scope global nexthop via $P1 dev $IF1 weight 1 \
> > nexthop via $P2 dev $IF2 weight 1
> >
> > Last line is wrapped at the "\". It does the load balancing. Change the
> > weights if one line is faster than the other. For me, the system is a
> > server and both DSL lines have 768k upload so equal weights. For
> > downloads one is 6Mb the other is 3Mb so I would reweigh to use 2:1.
> >
> >> --Huck
> >>
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