From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 14:04:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA11880 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:04:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11856 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:03:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id QAA21195; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:00:05 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199601172200.QAA21195@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... To: lists@argus.flash.net (mailing list account) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:00:05 -0600 (CST) Cc: witr@rwwa.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601171710.LAA02238@argus.flash.net> from "mailing list account" at Jan 17, 96 11:10:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > The reason I mention this is that I finally got my Internet provider to > > > set me up a static route with a second IP address gatewayed through it. > > > > I was wondering about load balancing several lines? For example, > > if I could load balance two POTS lines with 28.8 modems, I could > > have the bandwidth of single ISDN at a fraction of the cost. With > > four lines I could have bonded ISDN performance, again at a fraction > > of the cost. > > > > Does anyone do this. Can FreeBSD do this? > > don't count on even close to that level of performance. the phone companies > routinely use adaptive compression that highly effects v.34 modems. where i'm > at, it will sometimes fall back to as low as 4800 baud... where i was at a > few months ago, it would usually stop falling back around 21.6kbaud, so it does > vary from site to site. i think that with the advent of v.34 modems and the > availability of isdn, they may be forcing deeper fallbacks in order to get v.34 > owners to get isdn. i would not put that kind of trick past ma bell, would > you? southwestern bell for instance routinely goes to the texas puc attempting > to charge more for modems on voice lines, so far, the puc has not given in. > > brain food... That is not true everywhere. It is also not a reason not to pursue something like this: think about other serial technologies (hardwire, ISDN, etc)... but locally at least, you can get decent throughput at 24000 or 26.4K quite reliably. It would be cool to get a "56K+++" link this way.. ... JG