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From: J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: load sharing telnet/rlogin/route to mainframe
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Date: 18 Oct 90 12:53:29 GMT
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we have a mainframe with a lot of timesharers who rlogin/telnet
from workstations - the mainframe ethernet i/f is a bit slow
so we've put several on the machine...

can we set up clients so that they pick which i/f to route to
uniform random, or even deterministically - we dont want
users to know and we dont want to hack rlogin (we've done
this before the other way round to loadsare users round a lot
of workstations)...

could we magic it up by setting a route metric differently
for each of the masionframes i/f IP addressses in different
clients perhaps? (routing seems the natural place to add
loadsharing) but remembering they are all on same net & even
subnet...(i.e. add a host route for each i/f/?)?

what have other people done (and no humerous remarks about
buy a different mainframe or get different i/fs we didnt
really have a choice:-)  ?

thanks

jon