Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 15:12:47 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, jcargill@cs.wisc.edu, jkh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Network gurus: How hard to split bandwidth across modems? Message-ID: <9502152012.AA12496@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950215105019.26719A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> References: <9502151758.AA18784@brasil.moneng.mei.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.950215105019.26719A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
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<<On Wed, 15 Feb 1995 10:52:35 -0800 (PST), Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com> said: > 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?) A few moments of thought should make it clear that PPP multilink is the only mechanism available for load-balancing outside of the individual application. There has been some debate about creating a lightweight session layer for IPng which would allow this as one of its benefits, but anything else has to be done in the link layer, and there's only one link layer with a standard way of doing it. You'd probably like even less the idea of multi-link PPP for preemptive priority queueing. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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