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Get an ip address (or two, or whatever). Bond it to "lo" (not a card, 
but in the box).
In the router upstream, make static routes for those ip addies, 
pointing to each separate card.

linux box:
111.111.111.110 (eth0)
111.111.111.111 (eth1)
111.111.111.112 (lo:1)
111.111.111.113 (lo:1)

router:
route 111.111.111.112 255.255.255.255 111.111.111.110
route 111.111.111.112 255.255.255.255 111.111.111.111 100
route 111.111.111.113 255.255.255.255 111.111.111.111
route 111.111.111.113 255.255.255.255 111.111.111.110 100

turn on ip forwarding in the kernel.

What you are doing:
Telling the packets that come into the router to be sent to multiple 
cards in a linux box, rather than to specific addresses bonded onto the 
cards.

Why this works:
The linux box has the IP addresses bonded to loopback, so it recognizes 
the addresses as its own. The router sends to addresses based on 
availability.

Why use round robin:
To get rid of route preference bias in routers.

Most people look at me funny when I explain this, but it's a great way 
to have any number of addresses on a machine, and a card can die, a 
cable can die, and the machine keeps running, the services stay 
'alive".

-Bop


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