Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:59:04 -0400 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Chris Cook' <ccook@arkansasdoc.com>, 'Eric Anderson' <anderson@centtech.com>, 'Emre Bastuz' <info@emre.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 2 adsl connections load balancing with natd/ipfw Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337051D8D67@mail.sandvine.com>
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From: Chris Cook [mailto:ccook@arkansasdoc.com] > Yes, but you will not be able to load balance incoming > connections, only > outbound requests, and the packets would not be evenly > distributed as in a > true load balancing scenario. > ... incoming connections can be roughly balanced with DNS round robin. The outgoing ones, although not really load balanced, just spread, is still pretty good. Its not perfect, but it does work. The biggest wart is that individual TCP sessions are bound to an interface rather than individual source IP's. I don't know how to solve that. --donhome | help
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