Re: Seeking info on multiple, simultaneous Net connections

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

> On Monday 03 December 2001 03:37, you wrote:
>> to combine multiple interfaces into one (for your
>> bandwidth combining) that is called channel bonding. I
> 
> Not useful if the other end doesn't know what you're doing, and
> especially  not useful if the other ends are at different locations.

Very useful if you understand routing ...
You can send packets OUT of either connection - it doesn't matter,
(I've done this during an ISP change over and I know it works -
but I just changed the route from one to the other - back a forth a
few times - not both at the same time - but I know you can route that
also)
however, they will only come IN the connections that are routed to
your static IP addresses.

If machines in your network have a different static IP address for
each ISP then you can setup so that traffic can come in either (a small
bit of magic involved - but don't ask me I've never tried it - an
example of this is the damn clicknet advertising - but I'd guess there
must be more than one way to do it :-)
OR
you need to get your ISPs to both setup routing exactly the same way
the ISPs do it themselves since many do exactly the same thing - multiple
connections to the the rest of the world to solve connection failure
problems.

So ... if you run services and want outgoing data to be faster,
then more than one connection will immediately be useful with the
correct routing on your linux box

A simple solution would be to route different services out of the
different connections.

Again I've never tried to do load balancing in routing but I know it
can effectively be done (I'd guess there might even be a HOWTO :-)

-- 
-Cheers
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!