Hello John, thank you very much, it gives alot of info I was looking for. About the load balancing configuration, I havent really understood how it works.
From what I have gathered so far, a total bundling of the connections is something rather complicated and needs to be supported from both sides of the connection. So you either have the situation like you described where each connection is being assigned to a certain link and it starts and finishes there on a round robin, or you have a situation where link2 is being used only after link1 is fully used. I am bad in describing such things, to make it easier in an example, if I time a FTP transfer of 100 files of 50MB each and time a FTP connection transferring 5GB as a single file, which one will be faster in a multiple red link situation? Thank you! John Marotta: > Vassilis, > > I have been using EFW with multiple RED interfaces for some time. I can > not answer all of your questions, but the fail over configuration does > work pretty good provided both links 1 and 2 are set to be managed and > link 1 is set to start link 2 if it fails. Link 2 should not be set to > start on boot. Do not configure both interfaces to start each other in a > failure...I've locked up so machines this way and had to login via the > console or putty to manually undo the configuration. If you have a link > 3, than you can configure link 2 to start link 3. > > In a load balancing configuration (with both links up all the time), I > have not seen any true boost in download speed because if the download > starts on link1, it finishes on link1 and doesn't appear to split the > traffic for that one session. If there is a way to trunk or bundle to > red links, I would love to see how to that. > > I have been using DSL, T1 and cable modem configurations with Static and > DHCP. I've never used PPPoE but I'm sure it should be OK. > > While you can have as many RED interfaces as you want, you can also add > multiple IP address to each interface. If you will be configuring your > EFW this way, all outbound traffic will leave on the primary IP for that > RED interface only. There is a fancy way around this issue, but it > involves understanding IP tables which to me, defeats the purpose of > having a really nice GUI :). > > Hope this helps and someone can answer the other questions for you..... > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vassilis [mailto:bigracc...@gmx.net] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:04 AM > To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Efw-user] Multiple red interfaces > > Hello! > > Has any of you experience with running 2.2 RC3 with multiple red > interfaces? To increase the bandwidth and also increase the uptime in > case one of the ISP's has problems. > > I have searched in the documentation and also in the mailing list > archive but I havent found any solid answers to my questions. > > - Do I actually get a bandwidth increase when using 2 or more red > interfaces? In theory, will two 1Mbit lines give me a single download of > > 2Mbit or there is no bundling and I get 2 downloads of 1Mbit each? > > - Can I use different connection methods for each red interface? > > - Is it possible to have some red interfaces run in a bundle and another > > run only if the first two fail? > > - Does anyone have experience with having a red connection as backup > using the cellphone network? > > - I read that 2.1 has some issues concerning multiple interfaces, have > they all been solved with 2.2 RC3? > > > Thank you for any help! > > Vassilis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San > Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: > SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
