From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 13 14:55:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA29481 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:55:27 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA29471 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 14:55:20 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA08242; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 17:55:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 17:55:10 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502132255.AA08242@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: jcargill@cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Network gurus: How hard to split bandwidth across modems? In-Reply-To: <9502131711.AA08129@grilled.cs.wisc.edu> References: <9502131711.AA08129@grilled.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < I've been wondering how hard would it be to convince FreeBSD to route > packets (possibly bound for a single host) across two different > point-to-point links as bandwidth is available? There is something called the ``PPP Multilink Control Protocol'' in the throes of standardization right now, which does this. Someone would have to actually implement it, however. (I suspect it would be much easier to implement under IIJ-PPP than in the kernel.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant