From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Frahm Subject: Fwd: iproute weight balancing problem with youtube Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:55:52 +0100 Message-ID: <200811021655.53395.frahm@sybuca.de> Reply-To: shorewall-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: shorewall-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: shorewall-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello, I didn't receive any answer or subscription confirmation from the other list yet, so I forward the problem to this list. Can anybody help? Greetings Markus ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: iproute weight balacing problem with youtube Date: Monday 27 October 2008 From: Markus Frahm To: shemminger@osdl.org, lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl Dear Stephen Hemminger, we have found a problem with ip route and multiple internet connections using the ip route 'weight' option to balance the traffic of a NAT firewall between several lines. Internet sites like 'youtube' show videos only with 50% probability because youtube and similar sites demand several connections (for the web site and the flash stream) to come from the same source IP. Is there a simple solution for this problem for example to increase the time in the balancing algorithm or a cache for source IPs? Regards Markus ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/