On 22-Jul-09, at 10:12 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > Fed up of downtime of my ISP and having heard the same stories about > another > ISP operating in the area, I am wondering whether it's possible to > subscribe > to both of them for redundancy. > > However, it won't be an economical proposition if used only for > redundancy. > Also, as a home user there are no multiple simultaneous users. So > only way > both connections would get utilized (when both are up!) and give > value for > money is if for a single user they both could serve in tandem. In > other words, > let's say I have both connections of 128 kbps, I should get an > effective > download speed of 256kbps for download of even a SINGLE file (and > not multiple > files simultaneously). > > To the extent I searched around, it looks difficult or impossible. I > think it's > a reasonable consumer expectation, though do not know about its > feasibility. > > Any ideas?
Following maybe useful: http://archive.linuxvirtualserver.org/html/lvs-users/2008-02/msg00063.html http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-networking/21557-load-balancing-iptables-packet-tagging.html I have used it successfully used following on FreeBSD. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html check 'Load Balance Outgoing Traffic' section. HTH. -- shantanoo _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List