[AuckLUG] 3 wan ports, qos and failover

[Robert]

One question I might ask is am I going the wrong way about it? Should I 
be using a cisco router for this kind of thing? leave the linux box to 
simple routing & proxy services etc..

Robert

razza wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> We've got 3 internet connections, I've had a bit of a play at trying to set
> this up following the Debian article at
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/377
>
> I've got the multiple gateways working at least when I pull the network cord
> the second route works
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't deal well with connections that are suffering
> packet loss or other "slowness" but still just working.  About the best I can
> think of is a bash script pinging a few servers and watching the time
> responses, and taking links down based on multiple poor response times then
> have a cron job check on that link and bring it back up from time to time to
> see if its fixed.
>
> Do any of you have example scripts that do the above or have a more elegant
> method of approaching this?
>
> Note: I don't want to use a "firewall distro" I'd rather use Debian and add a
> few packages.
>
> <headhurt>
> Then I've got to sort out QoS for SIP and a few other vital things on the
> multiple links</headhurt> It's certainly a lot easier with one link!
>
> By the way if anyone is interested in turning up at some stage (workday,
> weekend, after hours or online) and giving me a hand with this task I'd
> happily reimburse for your time just name your price!
>
> Robert
>
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