Fwd: iproute weight balancing problem with youtube

[Markus Frahm <frahm@sybuca.de>]

Hello,
I didn't receive any answer or subscription confirmation from the other list 
yet, so I forward the problem to this list. Can anybody help?
Greetings
  Markus

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Subject: iproute weight balacing problem with youtube
Date: Monday 27 October 2008
From: Markus Frahm <frahm@sybuca.de>
To: shemminger@osdl.org, lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl

Dear Stephen Hemminger,
we have found a problem with ip route and multiple internet connections using 
the ip route 'weight' option to balance the traffic of a NAT firewall between 
several lines. Internet sites like 'youtube' show videos only with 50% 
probability because youtube and similar sites demand several connections (for 
the web site and the flash stream) to come from the same source IP. Is there a 
simple solution for this problem for example to increase the time in the 
balancing algorithm or a cache for source IPs? 
Regards

  Markus





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