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Worf Maugg
10-01-2001, 10:00 AM
It's a major waste of Beowulf's capabilities but with the turmoil in the broadband market it seems like a good idea. I used to run a few Quake (linux) servers on my SDSL line but that's gone now. The only broadband (affordable) left is cable. If I could bind 3 cable modems together I could get my servers running again. I need suggestions on how to proceed. I'm going to buy a new box for the project. It will be a 1ghz pIII with 4 nic's. 3 to combine and 1 to connect to my internal network. Any and all suggestions would greatly appreciated.
Most likely wouldn't work. Beowulf clusters are a good marrige between OS (linux) , superfast networking (Gigabit ethernet, Myrnet) and sharing optimized code (MPI, PVM). Quake just wont run well in that environment, the code needs to be specialized.
If you could build a bridge, that might work, bringing the 3 lines into a box and then to the server over 100mps ethernet.
Check out http://www.beowulf.org for lotsa links about the project.
Devrdander
10-01-2001, 10:07 PM
The down side of that idea, All 3 nics connected to the net will have diff IPs, and I'm not sure if a single quake server will bind to more than one IP... otherwise if it wont, your still running at the speed of one cable modem since your using ITS IP ONLY... I might be wrong, anyone?
Worf Maugg
10-02-2001, 08:08 AM
The plan is to bind the quake server to (1) IP and stripe the out bound traffic across all (3) IP's. Cable download speed is more than enough. The bottle neck is the upstream bandwidth.
nathaniel
10-02-2001, 03:14 PM
I know cisco s are able to to BGP (brige gateway Protocol) This is what u would have to bring up with your cable company to see if they have it and/or support it. I know verison has it / no support though/ in dsl 8mb line,
NB
Worf Maugg
10-02-2001, 03:43 PM
I'm also looking at GateD routing software.
Homepage: http://www.gated.org/