Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:08:12 -0500 (EST) From: Geoff Wells <geoff@ginsu.com> To: James Robertson <max@underdog.maxie.com> Cc: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117230151.13441D-100000@schwing.ginsu.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960117201130.14064F-100000@underdog.maxie.com>
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Hi, I've do this (two ISDN card) on a Sparc 20 for an Internet show up here a few months back. I got GREAT performance and compliments on the setup. The show didn't provide internet so we poped this under a table and served a half dozen workstations, demoing web development. Geoff. On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, James Robertson wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > Well, my Ascend Pipeline 50 has just one isdn interface so two > > ISDN lines is out of the question. Adding support to multiple > > ISDN lines is still a viable solution specially in areas in which > > ISDN rates are low. > > Yes, it would be. I think it would have to be done with the ISDN cards > though. > > You could use two seperate ethernets to talk to two Pipelines, or just give > them two different addresses on one. The problem would be the host machine > would have no way of knowing if the pipeline had actually sent the packet > or dropped it, so in trying to load share it could actually be routing > traffic to an interface that may already be at capacity or even down, > when it thinks it is doing a good job sharing the load. > > James Robertson > Treetop Internet Services > > >
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