From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jared Ballou Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:22:24 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Load Balancing with Instant Messenger traffic? Message-Id: <43CC46D0.2090105@us.army.mil> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hi, I have a box set up to distribute load over 4 satellite connections. I cannot use Instant Messenger programs with it as it stands, I believe that using iproute2, the path to the server is not being locked to one interface, so the IM servers are getting user traffic from multiple IPs. When I set just one default gateway, IMs work great. When I use the scope global/nexthop method of load balancing, IM programs will keep disconnecting and needing to reconnect. Is there a way (besides bonding) to make IM traffic locked into a certain interface? I'd like to do it balanced too since Yahoo webcams take up 30% of the bandwidth here, but if I have to I guess I could forward all that traffic out one modem and everything else out another. Thanks. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc