Re: (PM) load balancing
Tim Cassedy-Blum (tcassedy@waltwhitman.edu)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 17:02:01 -0400 (EDT)
> > me that the way you use 4 modems for bandwidth is called "load balancing"
> > and that they will only need 1 IP total. Is this the case? If that's
> > not the best way to do it, what is? They can get 4 static IPs if that's
> > what it takes.
>
> If you have only 1 IP the PM will get it and you will have no IPs for you
> local network. Best to get a subnet.
That's not feasible economically. We can either get 1 IP and do this load
balancing thing (does anyone know about this?) or get 4 IPs and do a
proxy-style thing via eth0:0, eth0:1, eth0:2, and eth0:3 on our linux
server.
Tim
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