From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 13 10:29:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA10658 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:29:36 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA10650 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:29:34 -0800 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15441; Mon, 13 Feb 95 12:27:04 CST From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9502131827.AA15441@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Network gurus: How hard to split bandwidth across modems? To: jcargill@cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:27:03 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9502131711.AA08129@grilled.cs.wisc.edu> from "Jon Cargille" at Feb 13, 95 11:11:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL9] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1111 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've been wondering how hard would it be to convince FreeBSD to route > packets (possibly bound for a single host) across two different > point-to-point links as bandwidth is available? > > The reason I'm wondering is that two 28.8 modems over POTS are quite a > lot more affordable than a leased 56K line these days... I briefly looked at this and it appeared to be nontrivial: I also started to look into MorningStar PPP but was disgusted by the prices. I have basically a similar problem: a pair of ISDN terminal adapters that can't do bonding on an async connection (sync only). I was curious to see if they could be used as two separate links with multilink PPP, but the lack of an easy/obvious solution persuaded me to wait until the TA vendor finishes an async bonding implementation. There is an RFC for multilink PPP out there in RFCland.... and I'd be interested in any results. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847