On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:36:54 -0600 "Jan Mulders" <lastchancehotel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >From the looks of these two programs, they seem to 'round robin' > >outgoing > TCP requests over multiple links - I believe most iptables frontends > (I know Shorewall does out of the box) allow you to round-robin > outgoing connections over multiple different source IP addresses when > masquerading using NAT, which is usually functionally identical to > what these two do, if I am not mistaken? I'm afraid yes Jan, because it isn't enough to round-robin connections, but to make sure that if a single client opens, for example, 5 connections, it will be split thru the available links, agregating bandwidth. I think that it's impossible to do this just with iptables. Even multipath (using the above example) would just put all the 5 connections on a single link :(. > I'm also interested to hear of related projects: I use OpenVPN to > provide a tunneling VPN to my users, and have lots of problems with > insufficient throughput over TCP, even when more bandwidth is > available. My main goal is to try and split TCP streams into multiple > streams, then reassemble them at the other end - this seems to be > something neither of the above are intended to do. Mayeb some kind of bonding, but the problem is that the 2 points of your VPN aren't directly connected, otherwise you could use Bonding or TEQL. There's EQL for serial links, but you'd have to install it on both ends... -- Linux 2.6.22: Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! http://www.lastfm.pt/user/danielfraga http://u-br.net Cranberries - "I Will Always" (Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? - 1993) _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
