From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 16 21:17:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA23573 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 18:34:30 -0800 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA23521 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 18:34:01 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA04678; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:17:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199501170017.RAA04678@rover.village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Porting cyclades driver; sigh Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), hsu@cs.hut.fi, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 08 Jan 1995 16:21:10 PST Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:16:54 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : Speaking of which, has anyone looked at BSDI's "mslip" stuff? : When you live in the same CO as your service provider, buying multiple : voice lines and 28.8K modems isn't a bad way of ramping all the way : up to 128k (assuming perfect scalability for 4 lines, which we all know : ain't the case). ISDN incurs per-minute costs which are untenable for : dedicated service. A local call into your CO costs nothing! :) Am I correct in assuming that your service provider would also have to grok the mslip stuff, or is it transparent somehow by doing multi-homing? Warner