I have used the nexland router, and they do not balance load, they open the
first network connection and max it out, then if you are doing a seperate
session it will open the second pipe and use that connection. So you can
have two ftp sessions each with your max line rate on each but not one ftp
with a max rate = to both line max rates combined.
-b
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RE: [BAWUG] I have a dream - and
it's mostly available today!
Well, you can get pretty close to this. Check out the Nexland routers:
http://www.nexland.com/turbo.cfm
They can load balance two separate connections. I don't believe this works
for a "single" FTP transfer, for example... it works by loadbalancing
separate transfers. Things like surfing, multi-part transfers, etc. all
happen at 2x the speed.
I've never used one of these before, but I know that you can do
load-balancing-like activities without any coordinateion on the ISP side.
Fatpipe Networks also makes similar boxes, although it seems they are more
targeted towards businesses:
http://www.fatpipeinc.com/
Jared Valentine
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Subject: [BAWUG] I have a dream
Well, it's a fairly minor dream. What I imagine is this: I have DSL. My
neighbour has DSL. We also both have WiFi APs that can reach each
other, and connect at order-of-magnitude faster than the DSL links.
What I dream is this: That we start routing internet across the link.
When I start pulling packets off the internet, they can come to me not
only through my own DSL but from hers as well. I think this boils down
to an ultimate simplicity what all FN / CWNers want to achieve.
What needs to happen before I can realize my dream. I need to get an
IPv6 address ... at least one ... for free. I need to be able to set up
multi-homing in my home router. I need to be able to advertise my
routing path to the internet. The internet needs to be able to handle
at a massive scale (since every neighbour connects...). We need a /lot/
more IP addresses than we have now. I need to use a /real/ IP address
because I can't route internet traffic through a NAT/site-local
address. I need to have an ad-hoc routing algorithm that can set up
this bridge and route across it really easily (because I'm not a
trained network admin). Forget about BGP, AS, etc., we need a way to
handle the massive overload of routes at local scale, at a regional
scale, at a global scale -- something that will scale gracefully as the
internet topology shifts from a tree to a massively connected mesh.
Please comment ... tell me what you think.
Simon
PS I'm cross-posting this to a bunch of lists because I don't know one
it belongs on. If you think you know which is best, please tell me!
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