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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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Hi Kurt, |
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it sounds like a very tricky premise indeed. However, a casual search |
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yielded this - any good to you? |
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http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,10680545~mode=flat |
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--Kerin |
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