Noah Vail
Serial Thread Killer
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join:2004-12-10
Lorton, VA
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| reply to evergreek
Wooo.
999 Euros = 1,342.0566 U.S. dollars act:google.
Maybe this could be done cheaper with 6 modified WRT54GL's and....
...what?
I could use 6 nic's in a Server2003 box but MS won't bond them. What would bridging them do? Nothing good I bet. Server 2003 has a hard enough time routing from multiple gateways.
Who's smarter than I am about this? Is there anything in the MS world that would bond multiple connections?
Shine your brilliance here you crazy diamond.
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana | quote:
obviously increasing download speeds.
...uhh...not! It could increase capacity though.
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kyler13
Is your fiber grounded?
join:2006-12-12
Arnold, MD
·ViaTalk
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to Noah Vail
1342 US dollars could get you about 2.5 years of broadband legally from cable (6-8Mbps) or fiber (15-20Mbps). In that 2.5 years, some or all of your neighbors could leave, cancel service, or upgrade to equipment that can't be broken in to. Then you have an expensive paperweight. I'm sure it would be useful to a select number in select locations, but it would be much more attractive if it were, say, a quarter of the cost. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
 ·Charter Pipeline
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| reply to Noah Vail
WinTel data center servers typically use two NIC cards and a driver that "teams" the cards for enhanced throughput and high availability. However, I believe this is done at the driver layer and not the OS layer. I think it also has to have the blessing of the switch at layer 2 since I think a virtual MAC address is involved.
Microsoft also has a poor man's load balancing feature where two servers share a MAC address and listen to all the packets but this wouldn't help in this case.
I don't know how the Windows routing table works. I know you could put the same default gateway in for each card and I suppose giving it the same metric might make Windows round robin (RR). If it does RR, it might only do so with five different apps and/or destinations. Windows may have an affinity with a single application and/or single destination always routing down one NIC. If it does RR this way, it would work for multiple concurrent destinations and/or applications but it wouldn't aggregate a single application's download from a single site.
Take all of this with a grain of salt. I know enough about infrastructure to be really, really dangerous but that's about my limit. I'm by no means an expert. |
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cdru
Go Colts
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to ronpin
said by ronpin  : quote:
obviously increasing download speeds.
...uhh...not! It could increase capacity though. Depends on what you are doing and how closely you are looking at things. Many of the speed booster technologies from a few years back would open multiple ftp connections and divide the file into multiple chunks. While there were multiple physical connections, the overall effect would be the same as a single connection. It wouldn't work for applications where a single pipe/bonded connection is required, but would effectively work just as well for p2p, usenet, etc where you would typically be downloading files/packets in multiple short bursts.
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dvd536
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to Noah Vail
said by Noah Vail :999 Euros = 1,342.0566 U.S. dollars act:google. Hmmmmm. $1300 or $50 to my own isp. . . . .
think i'll just pay for my own ISP.
only thing i use open wireless points for is seeding to get ratios up but not over my own connection 
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justathought
@rogers.com | reply to Noah Vail
There's always the Linux option. »sourceforge.net/projects/bonding
Of course that would mean that one's nice cozy M$ Server 2003 box is now 100% worthless.. |
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voiplover
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join:2004-05-28
Portsmouth, NH | reply to kyler13
Wait, Someone will buy it using your CC info them boot leg it... |
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