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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 1997 19:05:20 +0000
From:      Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk>
To:        Paul Sondhu <paul@comcirc.com.au>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple PPP connections from the one host to increase effective B/W
Message-ID:  <1.5.4.32.19970221190520.00b2eb98@wrcmail>

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At 13:47 21/02/97 +1100, Paul Sondhu wrote:
>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.

You might want to consider ISDN for this. The lower latency on a single 64K
ISDN will give you greater throughput than 2x33K acoustic modems.

Good luck
Robin.
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