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From: jcook@interaccess.com (Jeffrey J. Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple PPP connections
Date: 4 Jun 1997 17:00:24 GMT
Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider
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Brian Somers (brian@shift.utell.net) wrote:
: In article <5n28qi$792@nntp.interaccess.com>,
: 	jcook@interaccess.com (Jeffrey J. Cook) writes:
: > Does anyone know of an easy way of connecting to an ISP via multiple PPP
: > modem connections, and have the bandwidth shared among them, not
: > multilinking as my ISP doesn't support that, but just multiple data
: > channels?  Will the user PPP I will be using with masquerading work
: > natively with this or will special configs need to be done?
: 
: Can't be done without multilink ppp.  Both the local and remote side 
: need to decide which physical line to send packets down based on
: load.  This is a little tricky, so multilink ppp was created :)
: 

So it is not possible for the two different modems to be running off
different IP's and say each downloading a seperate file.   What I am
seeing as the situation for me would be this: two PPP connections
oblivious to eachother running seperate sessions, or maybe the connections
be known to eachother just for load handling between the two sessions
using TCP/IP clients.
Again, my ISP doesn't support multilinking on their side so whatever needs
to be done must be done on my side.  There has got to be something out
there that will do this.

					Jeffrey J. Cook



: > 						Jeffrey J. Cook
: > 						jcook@interaccess.com
: > 
: 
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: Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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