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super load balancing

J

Journer

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ok...so i know its probably not legal, definitly not ethical, but despite that...is it possible to:
assuming you have open access to some neighbors wireless netowkrs or whatever
build a box with some wifi cards in it and use something like pfsense or smoothwall
then combine all the connections to create a super-load balanced/failover setup?
if i were to do this...inlcuding my connections and the ones i can connect to...i could technically have a combined bandwidth of 42Mbps 😀
 
lol.



*theorectically speaking of course*

1. using pfsense you could setup failover.
2. no, you could not combine the bandwidth. The most you could do would be to have traffic routed to the most available connection based on routting protocols like RIPv2* but not split between the two conenctions simultaneously.


*seeing as how pfsense is based off of m0n0wall which includes no routing protocols, I would expect pfsense not to have implmented any either, so ( 🙁 ) that might not work.



BTW, seeing as how you are leeching, I would cut your losses and stick with what you have. Waht you are proposing is defintiely unethical, so you never heard of me.

 
i thought pfsense had load balancing built in? i was under the assumptiuon that if you had two+ connections to the interenet, everytime you made a new connection (download, webpage, email, etc.) it would decide which was fastest and go there...well...if you used a downlaod accellorator that had multiple connections for one file, could you not download at insane rates? also, would torrents not be the same scenario?
 
Originally posted by: Journer
i thought pfsense had load balancing built in? i was under the assumptiuon that if you had two+ connections to the interenet, everytime you made a new connection (download, webpage, email, etc.) it would decide which was fastest and go there...well...if you used a downlaod accellorator that had multiple connections for one file, could you not download at insane rates? also, would torrents not be the same scenario?
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I jsut checked, and while it does support it, it is a very basic implementation.

as for bonding the connection using seemeless aggreation to double the speeds...? Not gonna happen. You SP's have to support that.
 
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