OpenBSD's pf packet filter has a feature where you can NAT yourinternal IP addresses to a pool of gateway IP addresses, wherethe pool is specified as a CIDR netblock. The pf.conf manpage describes thevarious options one has for how this happens. If you need a randomlydistributed but consistent mapping, source-hash is what you want.

(Random distribution makes all of your gateway IP addresses more or lessevenly used, regardless of how you distribute IPs around your internalIP address space. Consistent means

The title of this is a little bit misleading; ultimately, the reallyimportant thing about Oracle's Solaris decisions is not what those decisions are, it isabout how they were implemented. I don't like the decisions, but thereal problem is their abrupt, no-warning implementation.

Let me be completely clear here: by making these decisions, Oraclescrewed people. By implementing them with no advance warning, Oraclescrewed people harder.

The consequence of this is that Oracle has lost my trust. I