[H-GEN] Connecting to 2 ISPs one entirely just for the FreeZone, How?

[Russell Stuart]

On 14/09/2006 4:55 PM, De Crow wrote:
> If a PC on the LAN requests a page that is in ISP1's Free Zone I want the
> router to use that Link, for everything else use the link on ISP2.
>  
> What is the best distribution to use for this? Anyone with past experience
> doing something like this?

Q1: You didn't say how you know identify the traffic goes
     to the Free Zone.  Is it by URL, or IP Address range,
     or both?  To save time I will answer when I know.

Q2: You didn't say what you want to happen when a link is
     down.  If IF1 is down can they still access the Free
     Zone?  If IF2 is down are they allowed to access the
     internet via IF2?

As for whether is can be done: yes, and it isn't too
difficult if you are comfortable with manually editing
configuration files.

As for which distribution: there are two sets of tools
you need, depending on how you categories traffic.  One
is squid, which comes with every distribution.  The
other is the Linux kernel and the iproute2 package
(called iproute by some distributions), which also comes
will all distributions.  So the best distribution to
choose is the one you know best.