Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 18:39:04 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com> To: Jon Cargille <jcargill@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Network gurus: How hard to split bandwidth across modems? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950214181037.22467B-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <9502142352.AA00365@grilled.cs.wisc.edu>
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On Tue, 14 Feb 1995, Jon Cargille wrote: > One thing I'm wondering, though; would an implementation of > Multilink-PPP talk happily to the load-sharing stuff that a NetBlazer > implements? Or is that a proprietary thing? Does anyone know the > details on what their bandwidth splitting does? (In case you haven't > guessed yet, the other end of my connection is a blazer... Thus my > high degree of personal interest in what it implements... ;-) After having much grief with two Netblazer (a PN-2 and a ST), running a load-balanced SLIP link over two 28.8k modems. Netblazer's use a very simple algorithm, if a output buffer on the first interface exceeds a certain level, try the next interface (on a packet by packet basis). The maximum buffer levels are configurable. So under low load, a Netblazer will only use the first line. Netblazer's can be configured to bring up additional lines if load exceeds a certain limit. Tom
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