Load balancing with ratio

Volker volker at vwsoft.com
Fri May 11 12:21:04 UTC 2007


On 12/23/-58 20:59, Rajkumar S wrote:
> pf can do outbound load balancing using route-to and provide  the ext
> interface and gateway ip like { ($ext_if1 $ext_gw1), ($ext_if2
> $ext_gw2) } round-robin. But the algorithm is only round-robin which
> may not be appropriate if the two links are asymmetric, say an  1MB
> line and 256kbps line.
> 
> Is there any way to provide some ratio like 1:4 where out of 5
> packets/bytes 4 will be via one link and one via other link?
> 
> I have gone through the docs and this feature does not seem to exist
> any where, so if some one can give a starting place to look, where I
> can do some hacking, that would also be fine.

raj,

I've never done that but what about giving the next hop with better
bandwidth twice?

HTH

Volker


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