Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:22:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Rob Viau" <rob@ipninja.net> To: "Corey Smith" <csmith@bonddesk.com> Cc: G Bryant <gbryant@roamingsolutions.net>, freebsd-pf@freebsd.org, FreeBSD <freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load Balancing Outgoing, its possible ? Message-ID: <41765.::ffff:66.203.207.9.1130790138.squirrel@mail.ipninja.net> In-Reply-To: <1130514267.81705.101.camel@localhost> References: <4361FE7E.50607@dgnetwork.com.br> <43624181.5010305@roamingsolutions.net> <1130514267.81705.101.camel@localhost>
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> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 17:19 +0200, G Bryant wrote: >> Daniel Dias Gonçalves wrote: >> >> > >> > It is possible to make this balancing with the PF ? Exists some >> > software that I make this ? Zebra can help me? >> > This type of balancing gives to problems with the navigation of the >> > user of NAT or IP valid ? >> > If it is possible, wanted to see examples with rules. >> > > > It would be much better to do per flow load balancing then per packet. > With per packet your TCP flows will arrive out of order which is a bad > situation since it will lead to a large number of retransmissions and > zero-window acknowledgments. > > The only tunable to help correct that is to allow selective > acknowledgments. > > You are going to get much higher utilization on your load balanced lines > by using per flow with multiple TCP connections. > > Anybody know how to implement per flow load balancing in FreeBSD? Are > multiple default routes supported? > > It would be beautiful if you could put multiple routes with the same > metric into the kernel and then the kernel would enable per flow load > balancing of the routes... > > -Corey Smith > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-pf@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pf > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-pf-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I believe pf is per-flow. If it was not, then not only would your packets arrive out-of-order, but also with different source IPs when you were NATing to different interfaces on different ISPs (without your own block) which is something I was able to do with 3 links (with three different IP addresses) from 2 different providers.
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