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