[CentOS] Two Internet connections...

Wed Mar 26 20:47:53 UTC 2008
Timothy Selivanow <timothy.selivanow at virtualxistenz.com>

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:35 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

> If you had 2 Internet firewalls each with their own default route, each
> doing NAT. On each of these firewalls you had a squid process running
> proxying requests and chaining requests from one squid to the other
> depending either on, request content, firewall load or Internet
> availability. Then you would have some resemblence of un-bonded
> load balanced Internet connections.

That would work for pure HTTP traffic, but I would think you'd want more
than that and the kernel routing algo's should be more than sufficient
(in comparison to a crazy squid setup ;)


--Tim
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