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Hi,
Joseph Mack wrote:
> ilan steemers wrote:
>
> > idealy I would like this setup:
> >
> > 1. Client sends request
> > 2. Request comes in on any one of the modems ( Not directed, just an
> > depends on the
> > client)
>
> I assume then that all the modems have their own connection to the internet
> and
> their
> own IP (ie they look like a router to the client)
> and
> (I don't know how cable modems work) the modems have their own connection to
> the
> router
> (or director) and can route to the VIP?
>
> In this setup you don't really know that there are any cable modems in the
> link,
> you just have a connection between the client and the director.
>
> How is the 6 cablemodem setup different then to a normal link?
>
>
>>>>>Well the simplest setup would be a server with 6 network cards each with
>>>>>their own
IP.
>>>>>The cable modems don't even show up as routers, they are completly
>>>>>transparent.
Actualy computers hooked up in a cable modem network look exactly like a big
LAN.
Everyone is in the same >>>>>subnet.
>>>>>The modems don't have any IP's but act as a medium converter (eg from cat5
>>>>>to cable
and back). Actual routing to the internet is done much farther down the road.
Ilan
> > 3. Request is directed to one or more servers (weighted)
> > 4.Server serves the request back to the client trough any one of the modems
> > ( round
> > robin based for example)
>
> Joe
>
> --
> Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
> contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center,
> mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA
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