Hi. At the moment I have two high speed connections to the internet
-- one somewhat faster than the other. I was looking at the advanced
router howto and created the tables, etc as specified in section 4.2
of that document and changed my default route to a multipath route
with weight 2 on the faster provider and weight 1 for the slower one.
Then I went and downloaded a test file, but to my surprise I was
getting a lower speed than with the default route to the faster
provider. Is there a better way to do this so it actually does me
some good?
Even if it doesn''t work I have certainly learned something in the
process, but I thought two routes would be better than one.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
--
John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com
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Arthur van Leeuwen
2003-Mar-17 15:40 UTC
Re: route with two uplinks actually slower than one
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, John covici wrote:> Hi. At the moment I have two high speed connections to the internet > -- one somewhat faster than the other. I was looking at the advanced > router howto and created the tables, etc as specified in section 4.2 > of that document and changed my default route to a multipath route > with weight 2 on the faster provider and weight 1 for the slower one.> Then I went and downloaded a test file, but to my surprise I was > getting a lower speed than with the default route to the faster > provider. Is there a better way to do this so it actually does me > some good?On your own, with 1 single test file, multipath routing not help. However, it will help in providing more throughput when a lot of traffic is flowing to and from different sites. Think of it as a multiprocessing problem: if you have only one linear process, there is nothing to multitask. If, however, you have a number of processes they can be dealt with in parallel on the different processing chains (uplinks, in this case), and the end result will be faster overall. Doei, Arthur. -- /\ / | arthurvl@sci.kun.nl | Work like you don''t need the money /__\ / | A friend is someone with whom | Love like you have never been hurt / \/__ | you can dare to be yourself | Dance like there''s nobody watching _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
William L. Thomson Jr.
2003-Mar-21 06:59 UTC
Re: route with two uplinks actually slower than one
John, Keep in mind this is not true load balancing. It''s simple put a crude way to use more than one connection as a single gateway from the inside, and to have some level of redundancy. As mention by Arthur, you only benefit from multiple requests/users. Single transfers won''t tell you much of anything. In my case when I has two SDSL lines things were much faster. Now that I am down to one things are slower. So I have had an opposite experience. -- Sincerely, William L. Thomson Jr. Support Group Obsidian-Studios, Inc. 3548 Jamestown Ln. Jacksonville, FL 32223 Phone/Fax 904.260.2445 http://www.obsidian-studios.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/