At 07:21 AM 4/22/2006, Grievah wrote:
Apologies for the long post, it is a complex issue, which affects some
hosting providers in a hard way.
The problem:
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Most home modems/routers/ethernet interfaces and DSL connections are
unable to process this large amount of packets per second and as a result:
Turn off flow control.
The solutions:
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1. for Source games hostings providers: make sure you are being
allocated low IP addresses ranges. Unfortunately, this is not practical,
since IP ranges are allocated by Local Internet Registries, which get
them from Regional Internet Registries (RIPE, ARIN, AfriNIC, APNIC,
LACNIC), which have their own ranges from already depleted IPv4 blocks.
To summarize, allocations to a given Provider are not random, yet
Providers cannot request addresses in a "low" range.
Impossible. you can't get small blocks of IP's, ie; a /27, only from
your upstream carrier, which doesn't care about how low the IP
address numbers are.
Also; if you decided to get your own blocks of IP's from ARIN, you
should be running BGP, or at least a default route. (also requires an
ASN, layer3 switching equipment, etc)
In other words, providers of Public Source servers do not have much
choice: either they are being allocated low IP ranges and their servers
will fill more easily (whether it is a good thing or not to them), or
they are allocated high IP ranges, and their public servers will
struggle filling up.
Again, I really don't think upstreams will hand out low ip blocks
(level3 owns 4.0.0.0/8, general electric owns 3.0.0.0/8) because your
game browser won't list them :)
2. for people wishing to rent/own a Public Source game server, filling
up easily: just make sure its IP address is as low as possible. You may
ask the provider which IP ranges he uses/has, before spending your money.
G. Stanley
Engineering (AS36352)
Velocity Server, Inc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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