CentOS - Jun 2008 - assigning "best" gateway and routing ---- Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 41, Issue 14

Hi,

Regarding the discussion of gateways,

Can the Vyatta routing software and/or hardware appliance solution help?

(The software is open source and available.)


http://www.vyatta.com/documentation/datasheet.php
http://www.vyatta.com/documentation/general/Vyatta_FAQ.pdf
http://www.vyatta.com/products/vyatta_software_datasheet.pdf
http://www.vyatta.com/documentation/index.php


Download
http://www.vyatta.com/download/


I have not ye used this.  I'd be interested to learn of others 
experiences with this.
Kevin

-- 
Kevin C. Abbey
System Administrator
BioMaPS Institute and Chemistry Department
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ  08854




CentOS Digest, Vol 41, Issue 14

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06:29:58 -0600 From: "Joseph L. Casale" <JCasale at
activenetwerx.com>
Subject: RE: [CentOS] assigning "best" gateway via DHCP To:
'CentOS
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> >What might I do Linux-wise to create a "system" that looked
at multiple
> >gateways and then assigned (via DHCP) the gateway that was the least
> >congested?
> >
> >Anyone have any good suggestions in this department?
>   
Your assumption is that the level of congestion would remain unchanged for the
length of the lease? Maybe an alternative is something that hands out one
gateway
then decides possibly what ip to masquerade with.

jlc


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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:52:03 -0700
From: Rogelio <scubacuda at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] assigning "best" gateway via DHCP
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
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Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> >> What might I do Linux-wise to create a "system" that
looked at multiple
>> >> gateways and then assigned (via DHCP) the gateway that was the
least
>> >> congested?
>> >>
>> >> Anyone have any good suggestions in this department?
>>     
> > 
> > Your assumption is that the level of congestion would remain unchanged
for the
> > length of the lease? Maybe an alternative is something that hands out
one gateway
> > then decides possibly what ip to masquerade with.
>   
This is a good idea, thanks.  So, I'm assuming that you mean something 
like this?

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/


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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:13:16 -0600
From: "Joseph L. Casale" <JCasale at activenetwerx.com>
Subject: RE: [CentOS] assigning "best" gateway via DHCP
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
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	<49627735003F5C479100225C339F9FE06FDCEE6C1A at Mail.activenetwerx.int>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

> >This is a good idea, thanks.  So, I'm assuming that you mean
something
> >like this?
> >
> >http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/
>   
Yeah,
I don't know how "sexy" the solution would be, but you could poll
for throughput/availability
with a script, then rewrite the iptables rule for example taking the new,
preferred outside route as
your new external IP to masq with. It would be functional, and given the
external link your moving
away from is likely down you probably don't have to worry about existing
connections, or do you?  :)

Once you rewrite the rule and refresh it, current connections getting
masq'ed will be killed. If your
in the middle of secure connection to something/someone or a download, it will
be terminated.

There is *no* way of maintaining any connection between different paths in this
situation unless you
specifically have something setup with your provider that is aggregated across
{n} connections, but then
we wouldn't be discussing this:)

jlc


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