I disagree - any worthwhile provider (which if you need 100% uptime you should be with) will provide BGP peerage, and it is the only way to do multi-connected WAN routing to the internet.

-----Original Message-----
From: pmueller@sidestep.com [mailto:pmueller@sidestep.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 10:00 AM
To: lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org
Cc: fred@igtech.fr; Jeremy Lobascher
Subject: RE: load balancing over several providers

> Use BGP for your routing protocol - I believe zebra supports BGP.
> 
> BGP allows everything you have asked for - but it is a huge protocol -
> go read up on it, its good stuff :)
> 
> jeremy

of course BGP from an SDSL/cable internet provider isn't likely to happen
:P...

maybe something like OSPF internally (zebra) + multiple interfaces/dynamic
dns externally would be sufficient.