metatron Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I use two connections at home, I get 8Mbps from one company for anything that I don’t want associated with work and a 155Mbps Lease line that my company pays for. Everything is on one network, I’m currently using a server with some software I wrote to do packet analysis and decide where they go(It is not open source). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 If you were to block the ports that your bittorrent was using on one of the WAN connections and then leave it open on the other then it would be forced use the other. Or you could use the two network cards and have them plugged into same network and then different routing tables for different IPs. You could still use just one gateway though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Could you not route things to the desired WAN connection via ports alone? Or is sniffing traffic/packet analyis a must? On a slightly different note, I had an idea for a box full of wireless cards, each one set to a different AP (manually or with some kinda automation), with load balancing sharing the connections out to the house via ethernet. Then just set it up in an area with unsercured wireless AP's. Illegal I know, but it would be interesting if it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Could you not route things to the desired WAN connection via ports alone? Or is sniffing traffic/packet analyis a must?On a slightly different note, I had an idea for a box full of wireless cards, each one set to a different AP (manually or with some kinda automation), with load balancing sharing the connections out to the house via ethernet. Then just set it up in an area with unsercured wireless AP's. Illegal I know, but it would be interesting if it worked. That’s a cool idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 In an enviroment when you have multiple routes to multiple WAN connections, how does the system route your traffic? I've noticed when I've had my laptop connected to my network via ethernet and wifi, and networked to my desktop with firewire (and ICS for some reason i've forgotten) its a bit haphazard about which connection it uses to get to the net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I think some of you miss the point of what a default gateway is. If you were to block the ports that your bittorrent was using on one of the WAN connections and then leave it open on the other then it would be forced use the other. This is not how gateways work. The default gateway (to a operating system) is an IP address that you send all packets to that are address for an IP address that is not on your subnet. If i where to block the ports for bittorent on the only set default gateway, bittorrent would not start using the other gateway, it would just keep trying with the one I had blocked the ports on, this is why a second network connection is nessasery. I suppose I could some how make use of some kind of software that created a vertual network connection, which is other is exacly the same as my real network connection, but the diffrance been it's ip address and it's gateway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 With my set up the server looks at the layers and identify and classify the traffic based on a signature database and then that determines where the traffic goes from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I think some of you miss the point of what a default gateway is. I'm sorry, i'm using this definition of a gateway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%28te...mmunications%29 Don't know which you are using. In an enviroment when you have multiple routes to multiple WAN connections, how does the system route your traffic? I've noticed when I've had my laptop connected to my network via ethernet and wifi, and networked to my desktop with firewire (and ICS for some reason i've forgotten) its a bit haphazard about which connection it uses to get to the net. Windows changes between them, I haven't seen it stick to one, or found where I can set up prefernces on which connection should be used if it is available. Not sure about Linux, I remember seeing something about selecting wired over all others somewhere. Could you not route things to the desired WAN connection via ports alone? Or is sniffing traffic/packet analyis a must? Thats simple enough, and one of the options that I was talking about. Others are that you use different IP address, or you could use different interfaces on your router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I think some of you miss the point of what a default gateway is. I'm sorry, i'm using this definition of a gateway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%28te...mmunications%29 Don't know which you are using. I'm using this deffinition of a gateway.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_gateway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I'm using this deffinition of a gateway.:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_gateway Which is basically the same as the wiki entry that I used but yours only deals with IP networks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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