DS-System Network Connections


Creation Date: February 22, 2006
Revision Date: February 22, 2006
Product: DS-System

Summary

This article describes some considerations you should make when configuring a DS-System (standalone or N+1) with multiple network connections.

Details

By default, a DS-Client tries to load balance its activities across all IP addresses specified in its connection entry (DS-User > Setup Menu > Connections Tab).

In order to get good load balancing of activities, each DS-System in an N+1 grid should have the same number of IP addresses. The DS-Client will try to connect to all of them, one by one, even if one of the IP addresses fails to connect.

It is common for DS-Systems to have multiple connection lines (typically from different ISPs). Each connection line should be the same speed. DS-Clients are not able to detect if one line is slower than another, and they will try to load balance as if they have the same speed.

In case the DS-System has multiple lines because of visibility reasons (access to several private networks from which the DS-Clients send data), DS-Clients can be configured to use some of those IP addresses as follows:



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