Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:41:22 +0200 (CEST) | From | Guus Sliepen <> | Subject | Re: iproute and 2.3 question |
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, George Bonser wrote:
> I noticed this remark in the ip-route cref document:
> equalize [...] > Is it still true that a patch is needed or has this now been integrated > into the kernel?
The patch can be found at ftp://sliepen.warande.net/pub/eql/. It works indeed by throwing out cache entries every time they have been used. This works for up to at least 20 Mbit/s of traffic, but not for 400 Mbit/s (both cases have been tried, the former works fine, the latter does not). You can try it if you like.
Route based load balancing does have certain advantages over bonding devices. But it's really hard to implement in a clean way in current kernels. I'd rather see the complete networking code being a module, and those who want to use different routing/firewalling/scheduling schemes can load (or even create their own) different modules. The current code is (to my eye) just a messy bunch of hooks and checks.
I will elaborate this statement and propose it for 2.5 :).
Met vriendelijke groet, Guus Sliepen.
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