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From: wongm@lespoir.apana.org.au (M.C Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: multi-link ppp for bonding 2 or more ppp connections ?
Date: 29 Oct 1996 12:57:40 GMT
Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association
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Hi,
I wonder does multi-link PPP is OK for used for bonding of 2 or more
separate lines from the same site to the same destination site ? What I want
to be able to do is to have 2 or more 9.6K analog leased line between 2
locations, and carry digital data over them (using modem operating in sync
mode) for cheap (or cost-effective) data connection for WAN and Internet
access. Since with the 9.6K analog leased line I can squeeze up to 33.6K
of digital data on to each of the line, I was hoping that with multi-link
PPP, it can do bonding of more than one such 33.6K pipe to form a bigger
pipe with greater aggregated bandwidth and still works out to be MUCH MUCH
cheaper than one single ISDN or 64K digital leased line.
I plan to use BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux for such applications if
availability of multi-link PPP (with sync PPP support as well) software and
reliability is ready. Failing that, I appreciate if someone can suggest some
other alternatives from companies like Cisco or Bay who may provide boxes that
do multi-link PPP for my requirement.
Thanks in advance and please CC reply via email to
wongm@lespoir.apana.org.au
Regards,
M.C Wong