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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:53:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org>
To:        Paul Sondhu <paul@comcirc.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple PPP connections from the one host to increase effective B/W
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970220194856.1532G-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970221133940.9045E-100000@riker.comcirc.com.au>

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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Paul Sondhu wrote:

> 
> Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me with the following problem.
> 
> What I want to do is set up a FreeBSD machine as a router so that
> a small LAN can access the internet through dialup modem lines.
> This part I have set up OK using dialup PPP to our internet service
> through one 33.6K modem. The FreeBSD machine is routing fine.
> 
> What I want to do is have multiple 33.6K modems coming out of the
> FreeBSD machine dialling up to our internet service so that I have
> an effective bandwidth of say 67.2K ( 33.6K x 2 ) or higher. Is 
> this possible? Does anything special have to be set up to make this
> possible? We dialup into a Xylogics Annex terminal server.

what you probably want is mpd (multilink ppp) from
ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/incoming...   I'm not sure if it will work with
Annex or not... 

hope this does what you want... ttyl..

John-Mark

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