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Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> Hey all -- |
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> I'm trying to help a fellow gentoo developer solve a problem he's having. |
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> He is unable to get decent broadband speed where he lives and, for various |
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> reasons, needs to get faster upstream transfer speeds than he can |
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> currently. One thought was to get multiple slower lines and combine them. |
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> Any network load balancing solutions out there that might help? I've |
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> already checked: |
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> http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html |
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> But this won't help as it chooses a single route for each transfer. He |
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> needs to find a way to spread traffic across two (or more) links, even for |
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> a single file transfer (like an ISO). So, when transferring a single 1GB |
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> file, he needs a solution that will send packets across each available |
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> link. |
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> Any ideas/links/suggestions? |
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There's bound to be similar functionality available in Linux somewhere, |
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but I remembered OpenBSD's pf supporting something like this. It |
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supports address pooling and round-robining between multiple outbound |
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connections. |
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http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing |
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Usually something like this might be done using BGP and some routing |
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magic to set policy on routing out through these. If you were to |
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investigate setting this up, Quagga (formerly zebra) has a bpgd and so |
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does OpenBSD (introduced in 3.5 or 3.6, don't remember. Now a userland |
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bgpd native to the OS.) |
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DS |
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