From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 12 8:10: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ple.org (c431822-a.smateo1.sfba.home.com [24.7.95.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB4C15A95 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@ple.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by ple.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA49008; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910121507.IAA49008@ple.org> X-Authentication-Warning: ple.org: nobody set sender to andy@ple.org using -f From: Andreas Pleschutznig To: Rami Abu Jebara Reply-To: Andreas Pleschutznig Cc: N , Andreas Pleschutznig , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP3 Imap webMail Program 2.0.10 X-Originating-IP: 162.93.14.66 Subject: Re: Load balancing between multiple lines? Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I found the neccesary patches for the kernel to accomodate this. Sadly enough they are for a 2.2.x kernel, so I might have to apply them by hand, but once I have this up and running I will tell make them public again. Unless Chrisy has them readily available for 3.[23] this will take some time, as I am moving also. Andy Quoting Rami Abu Jebara : > Hi > > The use of OSPF to do link load balancing is also valid, it has to be > supported on both sides though. > > the routing protocol will give equal cost to the links .. packet > forwarding is still done by the kernel. > > how this applies to this application .. I think it might be something > that might help. > > it would be interesting to this appliction working, from a FreeBSD box > though .. something for all of us. > > Regarding the kernel ... I still think it's a bit of an overkill to > rewrite certain parts of it for this application .. I could be wrong .. > if I am .. I would be thankfull if you point me in the right direction. > > Cheers > > Rami > > > ************************ > Rami Abu Jebara > Technical Director > Palnet Communications Ltd > e-mail : rjebara@palnet.com > Tel: ++ 972 2 583 5666 > Fax: ++ 972 2 583 6354 > w w w . p a l n e t . c o m > > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, N wrote: > > > Rami Abu Jebara wrote: > > > > > OSPF as far as know, can do load balancing .. you have to check with > > > your ISP first though. > > > > You are sadly mistaken. Please read other replies first. Load balancing > > isn't a function of an IGP, it's a function of the device making the > > routing decisions for each packet. > > > > > > > you can use Zebra or Gated to handle the routing .. > > > > Only to participate in an IGP. The actual forwarding of packets is still > > done by the kernel. > > > > > > > hacking the kernel ... whow ... don't know about this one :) > > > > It's necessary if you want to use load balancing across multiple equal > > cost paths. > > > > > > -- Niels. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > -- Andreas Pleschutznig andy@ple.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message