Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:20:30 +0200 From: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com> To: Rajkumar S <rajkumars@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load balancing with ratio Message-ID: <46445F8E.9030907@vwsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <64de5c8b0705110311v396ca514i848e558c4b580796@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/23/-58 20:59, Rajkumar S wrote:
> pf can do outbound load balancing using route-to and provide the ext
> interface and gateway ip like { ($ext_if1 $ext_gw1), ($ext_if2
> $ext_gw2) } round-robin. But the algorithm is only round-robin which
> may not be appropriate if the two links are asymmetric, say an 1MB
> line and 256kbps line.
>
> Is there any way to provide some ratio like 1:4 where out of 5
> packets/bytes 4 will be via one link and one via other link?
>
> I have gone through the docs and this feature does not seem to exist
> any where, so if some one can give a starting place to look, where I
> can do some hacking, that would also be fine.
raj,
I've never done that but what about giving the next hop with better
bandwidth twice?
HTH
Volker
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