Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:55:30 -0400 From: Javier Frias <javier@nyi.net> To: Adrian Gonzalez <adrianbsd@globalpc.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth aggregation (second try) Message-ID: <38ECCF92.92351A72@nyi.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20000406104739.00915cc0@globalpc.net>
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another solution is to have switches ( on either side) that supports
truncking.
and trunc the links together.
Adrian Gonzalez wrote:
>
> (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
>
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