Re: [LARTC] load balancing

[Ivo Vachkov <ivo@unilans.net>]

Евгени Гечев wrote:
> Hi!
>  Can somebody tell what is the best way for load balancing with one ISP.
> Here is the scenario (there is a LAN behind the wireless clients):
> 
> linux wireless client--------\
>                                          ---Access Point (Orinoco 
> AP1000)----linux router----ISP
> linux wireless client--------/
> 
> The two wireless clients are connected to the two different wireless 
> interfaces of the Access Point.
> They could be two PC's or one PC with two wi-fi cards (I don't think it 
> matters). Since the configuration is in use now it is not recommended to 
> make very long lasting experiments:).
> The idea is to balance (increase) the speed for the PC's behind the 
> wireless client(s). Single wireless client achieves 5Mbit/s, but is 
> shaped to 4 Mbit/s since at 5Mbit there is big lag, so a PC in the LAN  
> when using static routes can't use more than 4Mbit even the other 
> channel is free.

I would probably use CBQ + [e]SFQ. You can define classes for both linux 
wireless clients on the linux router which borrow traffic between each 
other and use [e]SFQ to equal connection speed inside these classes; or 
the [e]SFQ part may run on the linux wireless clients

> Has somebody some experience with similar configuration, and what is the 
> best solution:
> (t)eql, multipath routing, some variant of bonding, something else?
multipath routing ... where you find multipath routes on that picture ?
bonding ... it's applied in

PC1 | NIC | - - - - - - - - | NIC | PC2
     | NIC | - - - - - - - - | NIC |

enviroment.
> Is it at all possible to use bonding in such situation?
> 
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