J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft) (10/18/90)
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