From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 08:43:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA01576 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 08:43:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from wavefront.wavefront.com (daemon@ns.wavefront.com [204.73.244.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA01566 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 08:43:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ocean@wavefront.com) Received: by wavefront.wavefront.com (8.6.10/SMI-4.1.R931202) id KAA02282; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:42:01 -0600 Received: from UNKNOWN(204.73.244.214), claiming to be "wavefront.com" via SMTP by ns.wavefront.com, id smtpdAAAa02276; Thu Nov 27 16:41:56 1997 Message-ID: <347DA31A.F2D6F9CC@wavefront.com> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 10:43:06 -0600 From: Michael Porter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: keith Spencer CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can 2 modems increase bandwidth? References: <199711252258.IAA09286@smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk HA! It does exist! Multilink PPP, eh? I've often thought about doing the following (but as of yet don't have the skills to make the relevent programs): have two modems, dial up both to provider. At provider end and my end would be programs to "filter" the packets. When sending, it would attach a number to each one, alternating sending through modem 1 and 2 (easily expandible) when recieving, the program would put the packets in order and delete the reference number. I know that there could have been problems, such as one modem stalling, so I thought about having one of the programs request sole use of the good modem until it works again (and have it re-send the lost packets) and then test the modem every couple of seconds. Ahhhh......multilink PPP sounds much better. I'll drop my ISP a letter right now (crossing fingers) Thanks! Michael Porter ocean@wavefront.com port0095@tc.umn.edu