From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 26 09:47:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11C816A41F for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:47:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB17C43D5D for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:47:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id jBQ9oWP75547; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:50:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: , "Winelfred G. Pasamba" Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 01:47:12 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20051224155848.72649.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal Cc: pretenda@wrgn.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:47:29 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: Danial Thom [mailto:danial_thom@yahoo.com] >Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:59 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Winelfred G. Pasamba >Cc: pretenda@wrgn.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections > > > > >--- Ted Mittelstaedt >wrote: > >> >> >http://www.edimax.com/html/english/products/PRI582.htm >> >> "...Performs Outbound load balancing by >> session, weight round robin or >> traffic..." >> >> Note that they say by SESSION not by PACKET. >> >> It's marketingspeak. They are simply using the >> term load balancing >> for a device that doesen't actually load >> balance. Apparently >> they figure that if they say "session load >> balancing" even though >> there is no such accepted definition, that then >> they are somehow not >> lying. >> >> It's akin to someone saying that "FreeBSD is a >> kind of Linux" in a >> sentence that uses Linux to indicate "open >> source operating systems" >> >> Apparently you never heard the old saying "A >> grain of truth is >> buried in all great lies" > >I'm not sure what your primary language is, but >"round robin" IS packet balancing. > In an engineers treatise, perhaps. but this is a marketing document and your just assuming that they mean "per packet" they could have easily meant that the sessions were round-robined. >Suppose you have 2 "pipes": > >Round Robin: > >1 packet to pipe1 >1 packet to pipe2 >1 packet to pipe1 >1 packet to pipe2 > >Weighted round Robin, weighted 2 to 1: > >1 packet to pipe1 >1 packet to pipe1 >1 packet to pipe2 >1 packet to pipe1 >1 packet to pipe1 >1 packet to pipe2 > >"Per session" balancing may be useful when you >have paths that are not very "equal". If you load >balance to different ISPs packets could arrive >out of order (in fact they are likely to). You cannot load balance to 2 different ISPs unless your running BGP I already went over this. Does this product speak BGP? Ted