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14 Sep 2021 11:05 #99834 by j1mbo
The router will use some form of hashing to 'pin' connections to each route, for example source and destination IP hash. Think about it from an IP perspective - the firewall in front of the target will be NAT'ing also based on (it's view of) source IP. A single TCP connection cannot span two source IPs so traffic randomly arriving from a different IP (i.e. the second connection) would simply be dropped.

With the speedtest, I would guess that it is using a bunch of TCP connections probably to a few targets that run in parallel to attempt to max out the line as much as possible, hence why you see the aggregate.

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