[LARTC] Re: Routing packets over multiple links (NICS) all on the

[Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>]

On 16-08-2006 14:50, Jacques Rompen wrote:
...
> The 2 ips on every box wouldnt work because: Most people here are 
> complete network newbies, we want to connect more then 8 computers (most 
> people have a laptop and pc), we would only have a 20mbit internal network.
>  
> Im a bit confused. In the 2.4 kernel there issent even an option 
> ip_route_multipath_cached, only ip_route_multipath. Or am i mistaking here?
> If there issent, then I couldnt have put it to 'Y' so why didnt the 
> random function work?
>  
> In the 2.6 kernel there is a option ip_route_multipath and 
> ip_route_multipath_cached. But if i dont say 'Y' to 
> ip_route_multipatch_cached i cant say yes to round_robin, random_match 
> etc. I thought i needed that option random_match set to 'y'. (im not 
> sure if its exactly spelled like that, but i'm talking about the four or 
> five sub options to ip_route_multipath_cached)

As far as I know multipath cached should work for routing output 
of a current box but it's not working for router (if something 
has not changed lately). Multipath without "cached" should do 
simple randomization, but maybe for the begining it would be 
better to assign fixed paths by source ip and save experimenting 
with multipaths for later.

Jarek P.

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