[TriLUG] RAID notion applied to networking

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Sun, 24 May 2020, Alan Porter via TriLUG wrote:

> John Franklin hit on the answer.  You have to have an internet point of 
> presence that you control, and then you manage the two links between 
> your house and that point of presence.  Basically you're running a VPN 
> with a bonded link to that VPN.

but in bonding, isn't each link Layer 2? those packets won't get past the other 
end of your first hop to your ISP?

> The address that zoom.com sees is the VPN address, and your VPN takes care of 
> sending half of the packets down each of your two links.

yes.

hmm. I missed John's point then.

Or are you talking about mptun for the two links?

https://github.com/cloudwu/mptun

Joe

> home<=========>VPN---internet---zoom.com
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> You simply can not make one TCP connection from your house to zoom.com 
> and expect them to send the return packets down the two different pipes, 
> just because you WANT it delivered that way.  The routing decisions are 
> always made by the packet SENDER.
>
> If you control both ends of the dual-link (your house, and the VPN), 
> then yeah, you are always the sender, and so it'll work.  But like John 
> says, the difference in the two home-VPN routes is going to make things 
> pretty jittery.
>
> Let us know what you come up with.
>
> Alan
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