Zeroshell netbalancer setup

What if there was a software solution which could act as your router and give you the real power and control you seek for your network?

Well, there is. Using a software-based router offers you much better network performance, flexibility and offers an extra layer of security that hardware modems simply cannot provide. There are many Linux-based router and firewall distributions. I have been a long time user of a niche distribution called Zeroshell. I plan to write more tutorials in the coming months on how to do various tasks using Zeroshell, but first I want to show you how to install it and get a basic software router running.

The whole process is quick and takes no longer than 15 minutes. Create a new virtual machine. Allocate the virtual machine MB of shared memory and 8GB hard disk space.

That is all that is required. Once the boot process has completed you will be presented with the Zeroshell console where you can choose to install it to the hard disk, along with a host of other changes that can be done through the console. Change the hostname to something that suits your network configuration and one that will uniquely identify Zeroshell.

Enter an administrative password. Remember this password as it will be used to log into the Zeroshell web interface. The next two settings can be ignored. You must now assign an IP address to the network interface. This will be used to identify Zeroshell on your network, like any other connected computers.

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Our customers. I am new to Zeroshell and apologize in advance if the answers to my questions have already been posted to the Forum. We have set up a workstation in my office with 3 NIC cards. We are currently using Release 1.

The issue we are running into is that the Failover is not working properly, I keep receiving Fauts everytime I switch between the interfaces. Below is my current setup. Failover sticks to the active connection and switches to the standby only when the active goes off. We are trying to setup load balancing between a DSL connection and a Cable connection. Whenever We have the failover monitor in place, the DSL connection fails. I can provide tracerts and IP addressing if you need.

Post here the screen from the web interface of Netbalancer and the balancing rules, if you have any. Also post anything else you have, like traceroutes or pings, and maybe logs from the netbalancer. My company is an Internet service provider. We provide DSL and T1 lines to various customers. While we are troubleshooting this issue, we are using DSL service that we provide.

So the connection from our Core router goes out through the connection to our DSL vendor and then in through a phone line into our office and into a3Com router. Trace complete. This is the connection to our DSL router. The static routes on the DSL router are: ip route-static 0. I only have NAT turned on for the Cable connection.