From: Arthur van Leeuwen <arthurvl@sci.kun.nl>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] route with two uplinks actually slower than one
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:40:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-104791570301823@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-104791476300674@msgid-missing>
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, John covici wrote:
> Hi. At the moment I have two high speed connections to the internet
> -- one somewhat faster than the other. I was looking at the advanced
> router howto and created the tables, etc as specified in section 4.2
> of that document and changed my default route to a multipath route
> with weight 2 on the faster provider and weight 1 for the slower one.
> Then I went and downloaded a test file, but to my surprise I was
> getting a lower speed than with the default route to the faster
> provider. Is there a better way to do this so it actually does me
> some good?
On your own, with 1 single test file, multipath routing not help. However,
it will help in providing more throughput when a lot of traffic is flowing
to and from different sites.
Think of it as a multiprocessing problem: if you have only one linear process,
there is nothing to multitask. If, however, you have a number of processes
they can be dealt with in parallel on the different processing chains
(uplinks, in this case), and the end result will be faster overall.
Doei, Arthur.
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2003-03-17 15:24 [LARTC] route with two uplinks actually slower than one John covici
2003-03-17 15:40 ` Arthur van Leeuwen [this message]
2003-03-21 6:59 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
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