[plug] Parallel linkups.

[Craig Ringer]

Bernd Felsche wrote:

> What tools are available to facilitate this sort of connection
> routing? And I don't want to hear the word "Cisco" mentioned. :-)

There's iptables tagging and mangling, for one thing. There may also be 
some facility for this sort of thing in iproute2, but I haven't done 
enough with it yet to be sure. You probably won't need to worry about 
dynamic routing, so something like Quagga shouldn't be needed.

The May (?) Linux Journal - the one with the main story about SPF - has 
an article on asymmetric routing you may find useful. I'll see if I can 
dig it out.

> Head office LAN has separate Linux firewall hardware with a "small"
> IBM server for IMAP, Intranet, etc.. Each branch office has local
> Intranet mirror, HTTP proxy, file server, IMAP mail server and
> firewall on the Linux box. I'm already regretting not making the
> effort to deploy LDAP earlier...

Yep. It's a pain to get going, but it's /so/ nice. I just wish there was 
more documentation out there on the specifics of configuring various 
services to use it. I see the assumption that you'll be developing a 
custom schema to fit your needs a little too often for comfort.

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Craig Ringer