[120670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Consumer-grade dual-homed connectivity options?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Dec 30 14:04:36 2009
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <op.u5rcw90uq0lew6@tops.launchmodem.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:03:32 -0500
To: Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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=
