[plug] Another network question (IP Aliasing)

[Craig Ringer]

> You can even do the tagging split with weighting, like this:
> 
>     route del default
>     ip route add default scope global \
>       nexthop via $GATEWAY1 dev eth1 weight 3 \
>       nexthop via $GATEWAY2 dev ppp0 weight 2
> 
> This sends 60% of your outbound connections through eth1 and 40% through 
> ppp0.

Nice. Too bad there isn't an equally good way to distribute incoming 
connections except things like round-robbin DNS that require planning 
and take a while to activate. Othewise, I'd be picking this setup in an 
instant as a way of doing dual 56k (or more) to an ISP that doesn't 
suppport multilink, like our current one. Alas, most of our important 
traffic is externally initiated (email, etc) so any tricky routing 
policies on the local machine wouldn't do any good.

Back to drooling over PRI ISDN. Wishful thinking.

Craig