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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:08:12 -0500 (EST)
From:      Geoff Wells <geoff@ginsu.com>
To:        James Robertson <max@underdog.maxie.com>
Cc:        "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117230151.13441D-100000@schwing.ginsu.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117201130.14064F-100000@underdog.maxie.com>

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Hi,

I've do this (two ISDN card) on a Sparc 20 for an Internet show up here a 
few months back.  I got GREAT performance and compliments on the setup.  
The show didn't provide internet so we poped this under a table and 
served a half dozen workstations, demoing web development.

Geoff.

On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, James Robertson wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Well, my Ascend Pipeline 50 has just one isdn interface so two
> > ISDN lines is out of the question. Adding support to multiple
> > ISDN lines is still a viable solution specially in areas in which
> > ISDN rates are low.
> 
> Yes, it would be. I think it would have to be done with the ISDN cards 
> though. 
> 
> You could use two seperate ethernets to talk to two Pipelines, or just give
> them two different addresses on one. The problem would be the host machine
> would have no way of knowing if the pipeline had actually sent the packet
> or dropped it, so in trying to load share it could actually be routing 
> traffic to an interface that may already be at capacity or even down, 
> when it thinks it is doing a good job sharing the load.
> 
>   James Robertson
>   Treetop Internet Services
> 
> 
> 



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