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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Network gurus:  How hard to split bandwidth across modems?
To: jcargill@cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 13:45:40 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <9502131711.AA08129@grilled.cs.wisc.edu> from "Jon Cargille" at Feb 13, 95 11:11:14 am
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There is an RFC for this but I don't know the number.

John Capo

Jon Cargille writes:
> 
> 
> 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 know NetBlazers can do this sort of thing; has anyone looked into
> (or know offhand) what would be necessary to get this to work under
> FreeBSD?  Would minor or major work in the networking code be
> required?
> 
> Just thought I'd check whether someone has already investigated this
> before I start...
> 
> Thanks for any info,
> 
> Jon
>