Is it possible to make QNX network load balancing to work in TCP/IP? We have
several MS Windows accessing to one QNX node via TCP/IP. It will be nice if
we could increase the bandwidth from QNX to the hub by increasing the number
of ethernet card in QNX.
QNX load balancing is a feature of QNET, the QNX protocol. TCP/IP
uses the raw packet interface, so the obvious answer is no. However
lets say you have two computers. You run TCP/IP on just one of them.
The second computer communicates with the first using TCP/IP. This
looks like doing TCP/IP communication on one computer. TCP/IP requests
are transported to this computer via QNET, and therefore you can get
load balancing over this pathway.
Of course in this scenerio, unless there is some obvious reason
why not, such as the communication is from a web browser to a
web server, you would get faster communication changing the
protocol to QNX Send/Receive/Reply.
Previously, Johannes wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Is it possible to make QNX network load balancing to work in TCP/IP? We have
several MS Windows accessing to one QNX node via TCP/IP. It will be nice if
we could increase the bandwidth from QNX to the hub by increasing the number
of ethernet card in QNX.
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