What would be nice would be to load balance on a per connection basis, not a per packet basis, between the two modems. Any ideas how to do this ?
Rick Steve Ames wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:03:20AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > > Anders Hagman wrote: > > > > >I want to load share between two ADSL modems using a NAT/Firewall. > > > > > >Computer 1 \ > > > \ /-- ADSL 1 > > > \ / > > >Computer 2 ------ Wireless LAN --- Firewall/NAT - > > > . / \ > > > . / \-- ADSL 2 > > >Computer 10/ > > > > > >The ADSL are 500k links and I want to load share on session by session. > > >Can I do NAT between an inside interface and two outside interfaces > > >acting in a round robin fashion? > > > > This may not be the good idea you'd think on first glance. If one of the > > paths has a slightly different RTT (and they're pretty much guaranteed > > to), you'll see out-of-order delivery at the receiver. I remember seeing > > some study that showed that TCP doesn't react too nicely under such > > conditions (it works, but not at peak performance). > > Is it even possible to do use two upstream paths for redundancy? I tried > (very briefly while I had two broadband connections while switching from > one to the other) to get that to work and wasn't very successful. > > -Steve > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
