Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:15:48 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> To: Noone Here <oldtlhingan@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cablemodem bandwidth sharing (2 cablemodems) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0202152102390.22340-100000@shell.core.com> In-Reply-To: <F285BYswF6aqkWhevWc0001a9d8@hotmail.com>
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Actually I've tried doing the same thing with 2 T1's, but to little avail. The trick is actually doing load ballancing via the two external nics. Then what you want to do is setup a single nic for the internal interface. Route the data through there and you're all set. My biggest problem I've found is that data goes out, and it's evenly distributed between the lines, but on the inbound, it only uses the one line. Now if you had a lot of download or outbound traffic, I can see this being an effective solution, but I've never solved the problem of inbound traffic. It comes in on either one line or the other but not both at the same time. I've never gotten it to work like it's supposed to. Now if you've got lots of small files coming in, it works wonderful. But the larger the files get, the more trouble you have. Now if someone knows a way to get the server on the far end to split the data transfer and send it half and half via the two lines, that would be awesome. But most likely you'd have to get your provider to bind the two connections together on their end so that the data flow was split at the gateway and then rejoined on your side. That works, but not many providers I know go for that. Unless you wanna back some big $$$. Just my 2c. Usually if you do that or want to do that, they usually want you to upgrade to a bigger package or faster line. At that point you will have to give them your arm, leg, kidney, right lung, and your first two children. On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Noone Here wrote: > is it possible for two cable subscribers to somehow combine their modem > bandwidth? lets say for instance my neigbor and i agree we want to do > something like this, is it a matter of creating some kind of > server/gateway/router with two nics for the cable modems and two nics for > us? i imagine the aliasing and routing would be tricky, packets travling in > and out of both modems, only he gets his and i get mine? > > anyone try this before? did i make sense? > > R.A.O > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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