From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 20:24:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA08272 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:24:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA08255 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:24:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from peters@localhost) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01831; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:18:53 +1000 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:18:53 +1000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.3-beta [p0] on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Reply-To: peters@seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au From: Peter Stubbs To: Geoff Wells Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... Cc: , Robert Withrow , Joe Greco Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed Jan 17 06:22:50 1996 Geoff Wells wrote: >>Did you get a chance to look at Multilink PPP (RFC 1717)? > >I took a look at this exact same thing (and for the same reasons :). >This is what 3com (and may be Ascend) uses in thier ISDN routers to >handle two B channels. > >Geoff. > >On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > >> > > 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? >> >> No. >> >> I was looking at this some odd number of seasons ago to help deal with some >> problems I was running into; I never solved the problem using this >> technique, instead I got on the far side of a T1 :-) >> >> What I did learn: >> >> 1) BSDI has something called "mslip" which is basically what we are >> discussing. >> 2) With user-level PPP one would think that this might be more feasible >> since you can hack easily... but I doubt anyone's done this. >> >> If I were to start pursuing this, I might be tempted to start with the >> latter :-) >> >> ... Joe >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net >> Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 >>