Is there any one have the experiences of these two manners of equal-load-balance? Share your view with us please. I want true experience not just theories.

Uhm, why are "true experiences" better than sound theory based on how networks work? PCC is better than Nth. Nth interrupts connections. PCC does not.

PCC is less equal than Nth because it identifies connections and not every Nth packet. The more connections you have the more equal traffic will be spread.

you are so kindly, thank you much.

But will you still get max speed?
e.g. with my Nth balancing so far, I have 6 lines balanced. If I download a file with a download manager, I get combined speed of all lines, but with PCC you will only get max speed of the line you are routed through to that dst-address?
Right?

Ekkas

Yes.

But that isn't really load balancing, that's bonding.

Not really, as I do not get one 'pipe', just every connection that the download manager makes goes through a different line.

Nth grabs every Nth packet of a connection. PCC grabs one connection. If your download manager opens more than one connection you can use more than one pipe.

Ok cool. Which policy would be best suited?
both addresses, address/port,etc.

Depends on what you are trying to achieve.

Nth grabs every Nth packet of a connection

wrong. you cannot send one packet via first ADSL connection, and another packet of the same IP connection via another ADSL line. Nth is like PCC with classifier=both-addresses-and-ports. with the same cons and pros

Yes and no. When I said it grabs every Nth packet of a connection I was wrong. It grabs every Nth packet investigated by the algorithm. So you can use it to
mark alternating TCP SYNs to mark connections like with PCC. But you have to do all the manual housekeeping.

NTH is not a good solution, I have tried it just now,when I use NTH load balance,some applications like Web bank,can't log on. I have heard other peoples said that only PCC balance can solve these problem, is it true?

yep, and ekkas was talking that his Nth setup sends each new connection of his download manager to different gateway

I have heard other peoples said that only PCC balance can solve these problem, is it true?

PCC with classifier=both-addresses

I have heard other peoples said that only PCC balance can solve these problem, is it true?

PCC with classifier=both-addresses

What does it mean? Can you explain in detail please?

And I want to know that does the PCC is the perfect and ultimate solution of load balance?

I've been running Nth for about 2 years now over at first 4 lines and now over 6. Just have to force https (port 443, 8443 traffic) to go over 1 WAN then all is fine. I also have a dst-address list for a few websites that do not use https but need persistent IPs to work. That means that all banking will go over 1 WAN, the rest Load balanced and it worked very well, but I'll try PPC tonight and wait for the calls to come in, hopefully none.

Have you tried PCC tonight? What the result is it? I am waiting your experiences. and what is the exacting meaning of "wait for the calls to come in"?

calls to his tech support: 'My Internet is not working!' ))

I tried PCC as per the wiki, over 6 lines and I'm not happy so far.
I used per-connection-classifier=both-addresses but then ALL traffic to an address-pair goes through one line. I can download 3 different files from the same website, each with 4 connections (download manager)and all those connections seem to go through one WAN. With PCC I download 3 files at combined speed of about 1Mbps (my slowest ADSL), those same 3 files fly over at 10Mbps (all lines combined gives 12Mbps theoretical max.)
So I'm back on Nth for now...

Ekkas

sure, if it's for 10 users w/o serious https sites - then Nth is better =)

If I set connection-state=new (not in wiki?) then it seems to give me also fast downloads. Two banking sites work ok so far, waiting for the one that usually gives a problem to come online.

If I set connection-state=new

is it about PCC?.. should not change anything %)