[LARTC] client disconnecting

[Alin Ilie]

I think that connection marking is limiting the idea behind the 
balancing that we want to do with this "routing for multiple providers".

Rune Kock wrote:
>> I have two connections to the Internet.
>>
>> I implemented the load balancing as described in chapter 4.2 "Routing
>> for multiple uplinks/providers"
>> The problem that occurred is that the client applications like Yahoo
>> Messenger or even PuTTY (SSH client) are loosing the connection very 
>> often.
>
> I had a similar problem with an internet game disconnecting exactly
> every 10 minutes.
>
> My theory is that the routing code may choose to switch the data to
> the other provider, and that that breaks the connection.
>
> I solved it by using connection marking, and then directing all marked
> to the provider where they were originally marked.  I don't know the
> exact commands to use because I used Shorewall, which can setup this
> hack by simply specifying "track" (see
> http://www.shorewall.net/MultiISP.html).
>
> Even after doing that, some connections would still break after some
> hours, but it was a lot better than before.
>
> If you find out other things about this problem, I would very much
> like to hear about it.
>
>
>
> Rune
>