[LARTC] load balancing

Εβγενθ Γεχεβ etg@setcom.bg
Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:41:38 +0200


Hi!
  Can somebody tell what is the best way for load balancing with one ISP.
Here is the scenario (there is a LAN behind the wireless clients):

linux wireless client--------\
                                          ---Access Point (Orinoco 
AP1000)----linux router----ISP
linux wireless client--------/

The two wireless clients are connected to the two different wireless 
interfaces of the Access Point.
They could be two PC's or one PC with two wi-fi cards (I don't think it 
matters). Since the configuration is in use now it is not recommended to 
make very long lasting experiments:).
The idea is to balance (increase) the speed for the PC's behind the 
wireless client(s). Single wireless client achieves 5Mbit/s, but is 
shaped to 4 Mbit/s since at 5Mbit there is big lag, so a PC in the LAN  
when using static routes can't use more than 4Mbit even the other 
channel is free.
Has somebody some experience with similar configuration, and what is the 
best solution:
(t)eql, multipath routing, some variant of bonding, something else?
Is it at all possible to use bonding in such situation?