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...In our students'' hostel we have 6 DSL lines (dialups to different providers); we have set up a linux box (currently running 2.6.11-rc2-mm2, but the problem described hereafter also applies to previous 2.6-series kernels) with help from http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298 Our Setup looks like this: 10.0.0.0/8 10.70.255.1 +----------+ +-----------+ | intranet |---| linux-box | +----------+ +-----------+ 10.254.0.1 | | | +-----------+ | | +-----| HW-router |---(DSL -> Provider) | | +...

...p job (per packet round robin?), not for multiple connections between many hosts. I know that I won''t get 2 x 115Mb/s because of packet reordering, but 20-30% more that a single connection would be ok. I followed different HowTOs http://www.lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298 http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.loadshare.html or something like: ip route...equalize via... but I never got a higher transfer rate between the two hosts than max 115Mb/s with benchmarks like netpipe or netio. I guess the route cache might be a problem here, or maybe I''m missing some other...

...ere? And how do I stop CentOS from trying to pick its own default gateway settings (since /etc/sysconfig/network likely won't have a GATEWAY parameter)? Cheers, Nick ps. Hints about this obtained from http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0201.0/0000.html http://lartc.org/lartc.html#AEN298

Hi, I''ve setup a gateway using multiple default gateways and netfilter MASQUERADE to load balance traffic between two DSL interfaces and one dedicated link, and when I try to download something big, or when I''m using MSN (both in clients under this gateway), sometimes, or most times, after a while the connection timeouts. The connection doesn''t seem to change its