The first step in setting up dynamic load balancing is to define the Internet accesses, e.g. 'INET1' and 'INET2', with the aid of the LANconfig Wizard.
- To distribute Internet traffic across different DSL interfaces, the individual remote sites are assigned to different DSL ports in LANconfig under Communication / Remote sites / Remote sites (DSL). Telnet: /Setup/WAN/DSL-broadband-peers WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / WAN / DSL broadband peers
- The two DSL remotes are the assigned to a new virtual remote site 'INTERNET' in the load balancing list in LANconfig via IP router / Routing / Load balancing. Telnet: /Setup/IP-router/Load-balancer WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / IP router / Load balancer
- The virtual remote site is entered into the routing table as the router for the default route in LANconfig via IP router / Routing / Routing table. Telnet: /Setup/IP-router/IP-routing-table WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / IP router / IP routing table
Note: The virtual remote site 'INTERNET' is now to be used for Internet access. When data are
routed over this connection, the load balancing table will cause the "real" DSL connections to
be established and the data will be transmitted over the selected DSL ports.
Routing tags can be used for the application-dependent direction of data traffic to specific DSL ports. If i.e outbound E-Mail traffic ought to be routed via a particular DSL-interface with a particular IP-address, a fitting rule must be established via LANconfig under Firewall/QoS / Rules, which reroutes all data traffic of all local station’s E-Mail services to the mail server and sets the routing tag ’1’.
Telnet: /Setup/IP-router/Firewall/Rules WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / IP router / Firewall/ Rules.
