From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 20 20:28:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA00531 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA00521 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:28:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (metriclient-11.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA26531 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:57:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id TAA04757; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:53:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:53:30 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Paul Sondhu cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple PPP connections from the one host to increase effective B/W In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)