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From: Jan Hurst <jhurst@bekkers.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Load balancing ...
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 16:12:01 +0800
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I believe this is possible with gated but I have never tried it.  Has
anyone actually done this?

Jan

Edouard CORREIA wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I would like to make my bsdi gateway alternate its route to a subnet
> (S1 -> S3) from one router (R1) to an other one (R2) (2 x CISCO 2500)
> to provide a basic load balancing scheme and eventualy fault tolerant routing.
> So my question is what soft (probably gated) I have to use with BSDI (G) to
> optimize routing from (S1) to (S3).
> 
>      ------------------------------ (S1)
>                     |
>                   ------
>                  |      |
>                  | BSDI |
>                  |  (G) |
>                   ------
>                      |
>      ----------------------------------  (S2)
>        |                     |
>   ----------              ---------
>   |        |              |        |
>   | CISCO  |              | CISCO  |
>   |  (R1)  |              |  (R2)  |
>   ----------              ---------
>       |                      |
>       |                      |
>    ------------------------------   (S3)
> 
> Thanks for any hints.