On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:06:17PM -0500, Charles Steaderman wrote: > Hi all. > I am involved with a project to provide load balanced, redundent links > to the internet. We have been approached by the holder's of Patent > 6,493,341 indicating that we are in violation of their patent. It > appears that the patent covers identifying a SYN packet and picking a > line over which to send the data. This sounds like NAT, then pick a > line, doesn't it? I know that pf provides simple, round-robin load > balancing and I was wondering if anyone has had a chance to see if the > patent holder is out of line.
would help if we had access to the patent. -- Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
