From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alin Ilie Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:23:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] client disconnecting Message-Id: <45D8372D.4060608@matrixrom.ro> List-Id: References: <45D80061.2090206@matrixrom.ro> In-Reply-To: <45D80061.2090206@matrixrom.ro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org I think that connection marking is limiting the idea behind the balancing that we want to do with this "routing for multiple providers". Rune Kock wrote: >> I have two connections to the Internet. >> >> I implemented the load balancing as described in chapter 4.2 "Routing >> for multiple uplinks/providers" >> The problem that occurred is that the client applications like Yahoo >> Messenger or even PuTTY (SSH client) are loosing the connection very >> often. > > I had a similar problem with an internet game disconnecting exactly > every 10 minutes. > > My theory is that the routing code may choose to switch the data to > the other provider, and that that breaks the connection. > > I solved it by using connection marking, and then directing all marked > to the provider where they were originally marked. I don't know the > exact commands to use because I used Shorewall, which can setup this > hack by simply specifying "track" (see > http://www.shorewall.net/MultiISP.html). > > Even after doing that, some connections would still break after some > hours, but it was a lot better than before. > > If you find out other things about this problem, I would very much > like to hear about it. > > > > Rune > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc