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    Load Balancing Question

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Routing and Multi WAN
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      zipeee
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      Is the load balance session based, or packet based?  I.e. will it accelerate individual downloads by spreading packet requests over 2 pipes automatically, or is a download manager needed to split the download into multiple sessions to take advantage of extra bandwidth on the additional wan interface(s)

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      • GruensFroeschliG
        GruensFroeschli
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        Connection (session if you want) based.

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          hoba
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          Yes, for single downlads/sessions to make use of the multiwan you will need a downloadmanager. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/201 which makes perfect use of multiwan. Packetbased loadbalancing would not work anyway without the opposite end of the connection being able to handle this (hopping between IPs). This is not possible.

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