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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!mr.net!nntp.earthlink.net!hal.COM!news.ucsc.edu!ese.UCSC.EDU!not-for-mail From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and dual modems? Date: 6 Jan 1997 07:46:54 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5aqale$l0g@darkstar.ucsc.edu> References: <5am2jq$391@frog.inetworld.net> <5apop1$bg0@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ese.ucsc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-16colors PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33603 Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: : elya@news.inetworld.net (Elya Kurktchi) writes: : > Has anybody ever tried using both com ports and dialup modems and get multilink : > ppp going? If so, how did you do it? : : It's something I'm interested in doing (Julian Elischer has had a : multi-homed ppp working in the past I believe), but I can only get : my hands on 3 modems at the moment and would find it extremely difficult : to get a hold of 4 phone lines (even if I had the extra modem) :( There is apparently some sort of linux load sharing routing SW called EQL that I was told about by a #freebsd regular... If someone could work on doing an equivalent thing, I'd be into helping out... However, it doesn't quite sound feasable to do with Dynamic IP accounts... And it also doesn't quite sound feasable unless your ISP will set it up to provide you with something like this... it sounds like you'd need to write some custom software to run on a machine rather than a portmaster style device... just my .02$