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From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <support@obsidian-studios.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Commercial Alternatives
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:33:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-104576608829700@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-104568435724560@msgid-missing>

Brad,

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 09:31, Brad Davidson wrote:
> How is this possible? Is just goes out on the network and sucks up overlimit
> traffic, preventing it from getting to the destination?

From what I was being told at the time, over a year ago. You plug it
into your network. Configure all machines to use it as their gateway. It
will then make decisions regarding the next gateway or hop to use. Once
the next hop is known it's directed there and traffic is not physically
passing through their box?

I have a similar setup where one of my routers knows how to get to a
certain network via another router. When I make a request to the second
network, my current router/gateway tells my machine how to get there.
From there the traffic is directed to that second router and network.
Pretty much ignoring and passing little if any traffic through my
original router/gateway.

> I'm pretty sure that all the products out there require the traffic to pass
> through them to perform the shaping, unless there's some deep voodoo out
> there that I'm not aware of.

It assume that their units can work either way? At the time they did not
say traffic had to pass through their box. However most of SysMaster
current diagrams except for one show traffic passing through their
units? Not sure if things changed or someone mislead me. You know how
sales men can be. Although I did speak with one of their engineers. I
just do not remember who said what.

I do not think there is any vodoo, just some proprietary routing logic?
I would suggest shooting them and email asking how if it really matters.

I sure wish a good spell or chant would get the job done. ;)

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
Obsidian-Studios Inc.
439 Amber Way
Petaluma, Ca. 94952
Phone  707.766.9509
Fax    707.766.8989
http://www.obsidian-studios.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-20 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-19 19:51 [LARTC] Commercial Alternatives Mike Nielsen
2003-02-19 22:47 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2003-02-20 17:31 ` Brad Davidson
2003-02-20 17:41 ` John Bäckstrand
2003-02-20 18:33 ` William L. Thomson Jr. [this message]
2003-02-20 18:36 ` Brad Davidson
2003-02-20 19:56 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2003-02-20 20:24 ` Brad Davidson
2003-02-20 20:36 ` Kirby C. Bohling
2003-02-20 21:47 ` Brad Davidson

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