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Date:      	Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:52:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        jcargill@cs.wisc.edu, jkh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Network gurus: How hard to split bandwidth across modems?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950215105019.26719A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <9502151758.AA18784@brasil.moneng.mei.com>

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On Wed, 15 Feb 1995, Joe Greco wrote:

> Well, it is immediately obvious that they've used a simplistic algorithm:  I
> suspect that it would be No Big Deal to talk to a blazer in whatever manner
> of multi-line implementation we choose...
> 
> In response to Jon's previous message, I concur that a multi-link PPP
> implementation would be preferable.  However, given that I am not much of a
> kernel hack, and that there is code that already works (and just needs to be
> ported/hacked) for SLIP, I think I would prefer to tackle the job that looks
> mildly intimidating, rather than the job that looks hopelessly impossible.

  I realy don't like the idea of multi-link PPP for load-balancing.  
Load-balancing shouldn't be that difficult.  It also would nice if it 
could be so general to load balance over any number of packet interfaces 
(load balance multiple ethernet interfaces?)

Tom



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