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I thought I heard a "David A. Ranch" say:
>
> >> Have you looked at EQL? I think it's supposed to allow you to aggregate the
> >> bandwidth of two ppp connections. The principle should be the same.
> >
> > As I recall that has to be set up on both sides, and just does round-robin
> >on a packet-basis, that wouldn't work so well if you were known by two IP
> >addresses I don't think. :)
>
> EQL doesn't need to be configured on both ends. It CAN work without a remote
> EQL server but only for non-streaming traffic like HTTP, etc.
David's right on this... we discussed it at length as I was writing the
eql howto (and that update is coming someday soon, really!).
EQL is one-way. You can override it with static routes, but normal eql
behaviour is to send traffic to the eql interface and it semirandomly
sends the traffic out one of its slave interfaces (i.e. two PPP
connections). There is no "other side" to speak of--it's not channel
bonding.
And unfortunately, EQL is serial-only, because of the way Ethernet works.
I haven't seen an easy, practical, and within-the-realm-of-typical-
cheap-providers solution for automagically sharing ethernet-class
connections (DSL, cablemodems). BGP is probably (1) overkill and (2) hard
to get the person at your local cable company or @home to figure out, even
if you understand it.
You may want to consider something like the round robin proxy solution
suggested earlier in this thread, or perhaps write a script or set of
scripts that uses ping/bing/interface stats to see which interface is
getting less use and adjust routes accordingly.
> http://home.indyramp.com/eql/
--Rob
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