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Need help with traffic balancing

Offline Bastionas

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Need help with traffic balancing
« on: February 26, 2010, 03:15:48 PM »
Hi everyone, I have SME 7.4 server with several wireless routers connected to it. How can I balance load between them without configuring each manually?

Offline Stefano

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Re: Need help with traffic balancing
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2010, 03:58:56 PM »
short answer: you can't
long one: SME doesn't support such a feature

Offline Bastionas

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Re: Need help with traffic balancing
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 04:01:16 PM »
So which linux OS supports it?

Offline mmccarn

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Re: Need help with traffic balancing
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2010, 04:23:06 PM »
I have only seen wireless load balancing in custom solutions implemented in the wireless hardware itself.

Cisco has a (roughly $20,000) controller to do load balancing and radio control for its access points; Xirrus builds access "arrays" with 4, 8 or 16 radios that will do load balancing, and I saw a note somewhere for a 3rd party firmware app for high-end netgear routers to do wireless load balancing.