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Re: [LUG] load balancing with dd-wrt

 

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> 
> I don't think the wrt320 would work in that mode - you'd have to
> persuade it's firmware to pretend that it's single "wan" port was 2
> devices - it's possible (in Linux), but I don't know enough about the
> dd-wrt firmware...

dd-wrt is Linux firmware, so all you need to know is what routing
features and tools it has and if physically it has relevant interfaces.

Looks like the WAN port is ethernet, so if the other ethernet ports are
not directly addressable you might need a hub to connect the WRT320 to
the two ADSL routers but they are £10 at most.

> And another good place to look is the LARTC pages: http://lartc.org/

The LARTC gives a good explanation of how to do this.

With separate ISPs it boils down to route some connections one way,
route other connections the other. In the scheme of IP networking in
Linux this really isn't that hard. Of course ideally the newest
connection would always use the link with most free bandwidth, which is
a bit more challenging. But hey simple alternation is probably good
enough for most folk.

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