jrheinlaender
Hi,
here is an ingenious idea but I am doubtful whether it works:
I have a server with several (slow) connections to multiple internet providers. Load is balanced through a multi-gateway route etc. as described in the LARTC.
My idea is to create a single openVPN connection to a VPN server which has a fast internet connection. If this single VPN connection is balanced through the multiple gateways, will it then have the aggregate bandwidth of all links???
With TCP it probably won't work since load balancing works per-connection, but what about UDP which is supposed to be "connection-less"? Would there be any configuration required on the VPN-server side?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jan
janjust
I've had similar ideas in the past 😉
currently this is not possible with OpenVPN; you might be able to do this using a ppp style link, as ppp allows multilink / bonding. The main issue with multilink/bonding is that *some* connections must go via a single link. I've yet to find a piece of software/networking driver that is able to overcome this.
blackandyellow
unfortunately, openvpn just use a single tunnel, and it cant switch between two gateways. its just get fixed in the first place, meaning if you connect to gateway 1, ur stuck there, unless u do a reconnection again till it goes to gateway 2.
@janjust, ur correct, ppp is multibonded
