> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:shorewall- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Camp > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:10 PM > To: List Receiver > Cc: Shorewall Users > Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Traffic shaping suggestions for ECMP > config > > > On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:50 PM, List Receiver wrote: > > > > > This represents a challenge to me, as coming out of the Cisco > > router I have only one Ethernet connection to the Shorewall box. > > Aggregate speeds across that link can be up to both lines summed, > > but individual sessions can only be the speed of one of the circuits. > > > This basically proves that they're distributing across the links by > state/connection rather than by packet. If you can get the ISP to do > it by packet, you'll be able to shape the connection much more > effectively. Keep in mind that routers on both end would have to > share this configuration. > > Also beware that some protocols/clients don't handle out of order > packets very well and that out of order packets are much more likely > to happen when using a by packet distribution scheme. > > -Brian >
That was one scenario I was thinking as well. Given I can only achieve ~1Mbps throughputs from anything behind the firewall, that lends further food for the fire. I think I'm going to have to bring this up with the ISP...again. :^/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
