RE: Load Balancing

From: Mitch (Bitblock) (mitch_at_bitblock.com)
Date: 12/16/04

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    To: "'Mike Jakubik'" <mikej@rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:30:08 -0800

    >
    > Why dont you all do yourselves a favor and go out and buy one of those
    > home dsl/cable modems that have 2 ports and provide load balancing
    > instead.
    >
    [Mitch says:]
    The only ones I've seen were rather expensive and aren't modem's - they are
    routers... so you have to still have your ADSL modem, your cable modem, your
    load balancing router, which generally does a poor job, and has all kinds of
    limitations...

    Why spend $500 bucks on a load shared with an inadequate non-open source
    firewall that doesn't do what I want and then have to add a firewall anyways
    ;-)

    And worse, it works in NAT mode, and probably screws up ipsec, and traffic
    shaping too...

    Is that enough reasons to try building a better mousetrap?

    m/

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