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Re: Consumer-grade dual-homed connectivity options?
- From: Jared Mauch
- Date: Wed Dec 30 14:04:21 2009
On Dec 30, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Paul Bennett wrote:
> Is it going to be a more-effective solution to drop a few bucks on the 2960 and go through the hassle of learning how to set it up (and then setting it up), or would I be better off putting a secured Linux distro (e.g. gentoo-hardened, or something) on the semi-spare PC and running the load-balancing via iproute2 and friends?
Back at the Toronto NANOG I bumped into someone who had an interesting solution to the multihoming problem.
What they had was a machine that would key/sequence the packets and send them out each connection (so if they had 2, it would send a copy out each).
Whichever got there first, was decapsulated and forwarded on. Any duplicates/late packets were dropped. This meant that they would always have the speed of the fastest link for either up or down.
They also had a method to load-share to bond the two (or more) links together.
It was some custom solution they built, but something I would like to see a link to or open-sourced.
- Jared
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