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Re: [PLUG] Redundant switch configurations
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- From: zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Redundant switch configurations
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:33:05 -0400
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On 10/30/07, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/30/07, zuzu <sean.zuzu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think this also falls under "trunking" and "link aggregation". my
> > investigation into this has been more about merging the bandwidth of
> > two upstream providers (ISP) without requiring anything on their end,
> > using a Linux server. e.g. a friend of mine worked in India for a few
> > years and the ISP service there was relatively slow but inexpensively
> > priced, so he had to combine several ISP accounts into what looked
> > inside his LAN as a single fat pipe. or, I know that Verizon's
> > current pricing scheme of $45 for 15/2 but $180 for 30/5 means that
> > for the same $180 you could aggregate 4 15/2 lines for 60/8 Mbps
> > total.
>
> or if you're aggregating diverse services, such as fibre, cable, and
> DSL, you provide redundancy against single-source failure.
>
> hardware-wise, if you're looking for something mini-ITX sized and you
> only have one PCI slot, the Sun X1034A 4-port 10/100 NIC is available
> on ebay for ~$20 or less.
ok, closer to $500, but still a long awaited product.
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=40
FX5620 6 LAN Industrial Firewall/Router Platform: 1GHz Fanless CPU & 256MB RAM
> > the way to achieve this with a solid Linux router seems to be with
> > Iproute2. (I've often thought that a dedicated embedded Linux device
> > to do this one task but do it so well that it "just works" ala DD-WRT
> > would be a very marketable device for about $200.)
> >
> > HTH.
> >
> > http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2
> > http://www.policyrouting.org/iproute2.doc.html
> > http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2_examples
> > http://ornellas.apanela.com/dokuwiki/pub:firewall_and_adv_routing
> >
>
> http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Dual-Homed_Gentoo_Server
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