From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 17 14:53:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166D516A418 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:53:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brad@comstyle.com) Received: from mail.comstyle.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:16d8:ffe8:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D07A13C461 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:53:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brad@comstyle.com) Received: from [192.168.3.30] (toronto-hs-216-138-195-228.s-ip.magma.ca [216.138.195.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: brad) by mail.comstyle.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6520F82D2F; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:52:54 +0100 (CET) From: Brad To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:52:53 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <478F33AE.2030804@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <478F33AE.2030804@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801170952.53217.brad@comstyle.com> X-comstyle-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 6520F82D2F.A26E8 X-comstyle-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-comstyle-MailScanner-From: brad@comstyle.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Michael MacLeod , Sten Daniel Soersdal Subject: Re: Multilink PPP Download Speeds With Round-Robin Packets X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:53:16 -0000 On Thursday 17 January 2008 05:53:34 Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > Michael MacLeod wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've got two DSL lines running to my house, and two WAN NIC's > > installed in my FreeBSD router. I've been trying to get multilink ppp > > working through my ISP (TekSavvy in Canada) for the last little while, > > with mixed results. Each of my DSL lines sync's at 6016 kbits down and > > 800 kbits up. I have traffic working through the bonded connection, > > and the upload speed is 1350 kb, which is about right for a 1.6 > > megabit connection minus network overhead. The problem I'm running > > into is the download speed is only that of one of my downlinks (approx > > 5000kb, which is about right for 6 megabits minus network overhead). > > > > It is quite possible that the ISP is employing bandwidth limiting and > the limits are set to that of one ppp link (since this multilink > combines two ppp links into a single link and thus logically it could be > limited to that of one ppp connection). Read his whole post again.. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.