Options for Load balancing over two Flint-2 routers

[raesene]

Hi all,

This is a slightly unusual config, but interested if anyone has any ideas. We've got two flint-2 routers each connected to a FTTP connection on different floors of the same house.

The routers are on the same LAN (one has x.x.x.1 and the other x.x.x.2)

What I'm interested in is, is it possible to get traffic to use both of the FTTP connections?

A basic idea would be to split by client, so give each client a different gateway and alternate between the two gateways. I could do it manually by assigning static IPs and gateways, but that's a pain to manage. So for that one I was wondering if it's possible to get DHCP to rotate between the two gateways.

For failure modes (if one connection goes down) ideally it'd be cool if it could automatically fall over to the other connection, which would save manually re-configuring clients in that event.

Any ideas or pointers for this would be cool!

[alen5193]

Hi there,

You can write a Shell script to periodically check the connectivity of the gateways (x.x.x.1 and x.x.x.2) corresponding to the two FTTP connections. When you find that one of the gateways cannot be pinged, delete or modify the corresponding route through the ip route command to direct the traffic to the other gateway. And set the script as a scheduled task (such as scheduled execution through cron)