From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 20:24:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA08298 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:24:47 -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 UAA08270 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:24:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from peters@localhost) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01840 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:24:42 +1000 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:24:42 +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: Subject: Re: Another cool hack with FreeBSD... Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > >> > 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 :-) >> I was intending to up the throughput of my system with a second V.34 link. I realy thought that TCP/IP was designed for this type of thing, and that FreeBSD would do it without a second look. If it won't we should find a way to make it, since a second phone line is a hundredth of the price of an ISDN line here in Australia, and the throughput is comparable. My normal connect speed is 24400, and the phone lines stay up for as long as a month at a time. Cheers, Peter>> 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 >>