Re: [gentoo-user] [OT again..] Technical networking question about changing GW

[deface]

FF will use whatever your conn is set to. as far as logging in thats  
cookie based (normally) so the browser should just resume session once  
the network is backup ( ie - /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart)


On Feb 11, 2008, at 11:28 AM, reader@×××××××.com wrote:

> I happen to be in a situation where I have both a DSL and CABLE
> connection to internet up for the time being... (Until the DSL
> contract month runs out).
>
> It affords a nifty opportunity to do some experiments.  Of course I
> tested the speeds of both and it varies between 200 and 500 % faster
> on the Cable connection.  (Nice).
>
> At first I used single machines connected independently to the
> respective IPs for testing, but it slowly dawned on me that I could
> hook everything up on the lan, to the same subnet and then just reset
> the GateWay target on individual machines as needed, for any of 6
> machines.
>
> So currently I have two internet outlets and two gateway routers on
> 192.168.0.0/24
>
> Here's the technical part:
> Assume I have loaded a web page that downloads a video to my cache as
> it plays.  Assume further there are several of these to be played one
> by one.
>
> After playing one, if I reset my GW (and I have also rest
> /etc/resolv.conf to use that gw address for dns [probably not totally
> necessary]).  Followed by /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart.
>
> Will the browser, which has not been restarted, now use the new
> gateway when I run the next link (or for testing, run the same link
> again), or will it continue on the same route (which is still
> available), that is, will the browser (firefox) continue using the
> original GW until the browser itself is restarted?
>
> I know I could track all this with tcpdump but it gets sort of
> cumbersome unless you've memorized the necessary commands to filter
> output down to something more usable.  I usually get so tangled up
> with tcpdump I spend more time on it than the project at hand.  I
> don't use it very frequently so inevitably spend gobs of time at
> `man tcpdump' instead of tending to what I started to do.
>
> Why I ask is that the site I'm doing this on requires me to login and
> then relocate the stuff I want to see if I have to restart the
> browser.
>
> I wanted to try to gauge if there was much of a noticeable difference
> with the two IP connections.  And it would be handy to just step
> through the links changine the GW intermittently.
>
>
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