Mitch (WebCob) wrote:
> Hi Andrew - Haven't heard of any more work... though a bunch of us are
> pondering solutions...

I certainly wouldn't mind being a test site.

> If you have ideas on HOW those other two work - share please.

There seem to be two parts:  the load balancing and the failover.

The load balancing seems to monitor the NAT and firewall state tables to 
determine which ethernet interface gets the new connection.  (Connection 
being a new NAT/PAT table entry).  The determination of which interface 
to use is based on whatever the user defines.  Things like:

-Traffic spill over:  One link is saturated, use the other
-Connection percentage:  One link gets 80% of all connections
-Plain failover: if one is down, use the other

The failover mechanism does periodic simple PING or TCP connects on 
remote hosts to determine if the ISP is up.

Unfortunately I'm not familiar enough with the firewall and routing 
mechanisms in m0n0wall to even speculate on how to implement it.