On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Mihai RUSU wrote: > > > I wont recommend the round robin packet load balancing as that would do > > more problems with TCP connections, asymetric routing , RTT values. > > I guess if you'd use multiple connections to the same ISP (and same > access point) that would solve the problems of different RTT values. > Otherwise i can confirm there are problems, i had a lot more (needless) > retransmits using a dsl + two isdn links which was probably due to very > different RTT on both links. > Yep, also you mentioned about that patch, which would do if having the same provider as yuo said. In theory the lower layer u do the load balancing the more equal it is (think about per destination, per packet, multilink ppp, ATM ...) > > Cisco recommends the per destination load balancing solution. I think if > > It's not always practical. For example in my case one of the links is > asymetric (256k upstresm/1mbit downstream), the other isn't. So > distributing traffic with a normal multipath route would result in some > connections (maybe downloads) beeing on the link with slow downstream. > I guess (as always) that there is a price to be paid. If this situations with traffic being routed on the slow link happens too often some static routes would help :) ---------------------------- Mihai RUSU Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented within this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of any company, unless otherwise specifically stated.
