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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Robert Cotran wrote:
> Thanks for the info,
>
> I don't really know if this is going to be possible, I guess not. It is on
> a permanent basis. I mean, I could set up static routes to commonly visited
> places, but really, I was thinking of some way the linux box could randomly
> choose a cable modem for whichever connection. For example, if I was
> downloading a huge 100meg file on one, it would automatically send all other
> requests to the other. I guess it won't be possible... Oh well!! Thanks
> for your help.
Well, not very easily. If you were using a proxy server, you could
set it up such that you have a static route from your proxy server to one of
the other servers out on the net out one connection, and then have a static
route to another one out the other, and then I think you can tell squid to
use round-robin stuff as to which other proxy server to talk to. That is
a possibility, though might not help even so. As for other things, well,
you might be able to write a ip masq module to do what you're talking about,
the only problem is, how is the router supposted to know how big a file that
you're downloading is? It'd have to check number of packets per second or
something along those lines, then it may be able to manage some sort of
load balancing, maybe...
Though there are other problems w/ that and properly assigning the
right IP addy's on outbound packets, and what gateway to send things through
and whatnot...
Stephen
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