From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 6 8:49:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from nlaredo.globalpc.net (nld2.globalpc.net [207.193.206.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0537737B714 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:49:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrianbsd@globalpc.net) Received: from ds9 (ds9.globalpc.net [207.193.204.57]) by nlaredo.globalpc.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id KAA73651 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:50:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adrianbsd@globalpc.net) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000406104739.00915cc0@globalpc.net> X-Sender: adrianbsd@globalpc.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:47:39 -0500 To: isp@freebsd.org From: Adrian Gonzalez Subject: Bandwidth aggregation (second try) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (the previous message was accidentaly sent before completion.. that's what I get for using a different editor than the one I'm used to...) Hello I'm hoping that somebody else on this list has had the same problem as I do, so here goes. We're an ISP with offices in two neighboring cities, one is in the US, the other one in Mexico. We currently have a couple of wireless bridges between the offices (breezecom), and the Mexico office gets its net access from the US side (since Internet access in Mexico at higher bandwidths is prohibitively expensive). The problem is the wireless bridges aren't quite performing as good as I'd like them too. One is a 3mbps model, running at two (because it's proven to be more reliable at 2), the other is one of the newer 11mbps models. Currently, each bridge handles a few of the subnets we have, in an attempt to balance the load between them, however, they're not scaling particularly well under the heavy traffic. My question is, is there a way of doing some sort of bandwidth aggregation, or something that would let me treat 2 or more wireless bridges as a single "point to point" link? I was toying around with PPPoE, in hopes that I would be able to do multilink PPPoE, however I don't think that's possible (yet?) and the PPPoE documentation seems to be a work in progress. I got a quote for a pair of 'tsunami' 100mbps (45 full-duplex) wireless bridges and it was close to 30k so I'm hoping to find another solution using FreeBSD. Any suggestions welcome -Adrian Gonzalez -Global PCNet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message