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Re: Multiple cable modem setup..

To: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Multiple cable modem setup..
Cc: Linux virtual <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: ilan steemers <ilan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:22:41 +0200
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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