From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 6 10:53:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cpq.nyi.net (cpq.nyi.net [204.248.157.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B70EF37BF8C for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from javier@nyi.net) Received: from nyi.net (root@cpq.nyi.net [204.248.157.72]) by cpq.nyi.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02078; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:55:30 GMT (envelope-from javier@nyi.net) Message-ID: <38ECCF92.92351A72@nyi.net> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:55:30 -0400 From: Javier Frias Organization: NYI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Gonzalez Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth aggregation (second try) References: <3.0.6.32.20000406104739.00915cc0@globalpc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- MMM \|/ www __^__ (o o) @ @ (O-O) /(o o)\ -ooO-(_)-Ooo---oOO-(_)-OOo---oOO--(_)--OOo---oOO==(_)==OOo Javier A. Frias Sr. System Administrator The New York Internet Company 20 Exchange Place 21st Floor New York, N.Y. 10005 "Error #152 - Windows not found: (C)heer (P)arty (D)ance" --------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message