Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:15:26 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> To: David Miller <fquestions@d.sparks.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routing to specific network Message-ID: <20040113161228.E336-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0401120818400.57987-100000@search.sparks.net>
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, David Miller wrote: > Isn't this equivilent to selecting the outbound route? You want to > select 10.a.b.c uf you want the connection routed out ISP 1 and > 192.168.x.y otherwise. yes it is. > There are bizzare cases where it might make sense to try and load > balance two broadband connections, but they're really special cases and > don't have general purpose solutions:( and what i want to try doing is a bizarre case, load balancing without handling bgp. off the cuff, perhaps a hook or a netgraph node which round robins my source ip address over the two interfaces. of course, once a flow goes over one particular interface, it'd always use that interface till that connection is torn down. in cases where HTTP/1.1 is used without keep alives for example, each IMG could be pulled over a different interface, in effect multiplexing both connections. perhaps, i'll go read up on netgraph implementations and try something here. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+
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