Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:22:50 -0500 (EST) From: Geoff Wells <geoff@ginsu.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117162100.12186C-100000@schwing.ginsu.com> In-Reply-To: <199601171701.LAA20493@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Did you get a chance to look at Multilink PPP (RFC 1717)? I took a look at this exact same thing (and for the same reasons :). This is what 3com (and may be Ascend) uses in thier ISDN routers to handle two B channels. Geoff. On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > 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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