Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:01:18 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... Message-ID: <199601171701.LAA20493@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199601171507.KAA07549@spooky.rwwa.com> from "Robert Withrow" at Jan 17, 96 10:07:38 am
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> > The reason I mention this is that I finally got my Internet provider to > > set me up a static route with a second IP address gatewayed through it. > > I was wondering about load balancing several lines? For example, > if I could load balance two POTS lines with 28.8 modems, I could > have the bandwidth of single ISDN at a fraction of the cost. With > four lines I could have bonded ISDN performance, again at a fraction > of the cost. > > Does anyone do this. Can FreeBSD do this? No. I was looking at this some odd number of seasons ago to help deal with some problems I was running into; I never solved the problem using this technique, instead I got on the far side of a T1 :-) What I did learn: 1) BSDI has something called "mslip" which is basically what we are discussing. 2) With user-level PPP one would think that this might be more feasible since you can hack easily... but I doubt anyone's done this. If I were to start pursuing this, I might be tempted to start with the latter :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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