Load balancing

[Ryan Hoegg]

Hi all,

In my reading over the last few days I have slowly begun to realize that
netfilter may not be the solution to my problem.  I am trying to do
reverse load balancing; in other words, I have two (or more)
heterogeneous internet connections and I want to balance my
internet-bound packets between them efficiently and dynamically.  By
dynamically, I mean that if a link goes down, my machine will not
continue to try to route packets out that interface.  I realize that
this project entails a fair amount of coding of my own; this, I am
willing to do.  So, after realizing that the load balancing provided for
in the netfilter implementation doesn't do what I want it to do, I
thought I'd ask you: Is there anyone currently working on this?  I have
been poring over antiquated docs for iproute2 and have concluded that it
is not my Grail either.  Can anyone point me in the right direction, or
should I start from scratch?

Thanks,
Ryan Hoegg
rhoegg@isisnetworks.net