From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 27 23:36:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA25771 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:36:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA25766 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:36:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xmD5I-0000EK-00; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:24:28 -0800 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:24:27 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Julian Elischer cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: several networking questions ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Julian Elischer wrote: > This is in fact false. Many terminal server manufactureres support > multi-link protocol (not to be confused with ISDN bonding which is a > different thing.) You will however need to ask your ISP is he supports > multilink ppp. and it also makes a differnce if your multiple phome lines > don't come into the same device. (they probably wil need to) Cisco and Ascend network access servers (not just for terminals) support multilink on both modem and ISDN. Livingston only supports multilink on ISDN (for the moment, as the PM3 is supposed to support multilink modem shortly). On dialin access, Livingston PM3's can appear as a single device, and will successfully link channels over multiple units. Configuration is easy. Cisco can also link over multiple units, but if you have more than two in the group, it best if you use a "helper" router (another Cisco doing route load balancing). I'm not sure how Ascend is handling this problem, as we got rid of our one and only MAX long ago. Tom