Re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread Simon
On Thursday 17 October 2002 16:38, Dragos LUNGU wrote: > http://www.lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html Okay, I'm trying to implement this atm... But I'm slightly confused about one thing... The document says: >>> Let us first set some symbolical names. Let $IF1 be the name of the fir

Re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread Simon
On Thursday 17 October 2002 15:21, Alan Womack wrote: > There basically has to be a layer > someplace that reassembles the packets from two different sources. I had a look, but couldn't see any software that could do this. It would be a 'neat' solution though, as it would enable file downloads at

Re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread Simon
On Thursday 17 October 2002 16:38, Dragos LUNGU wrote: > 4.2. Routing for multiple uplinks/providers > A common configuration is the following, in which there are two > providers that connect a local network (or even a single machine) to the > big Internet. > > http://www.lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb

Re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread jbradford
> > Simon wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > [...] > > > Is there a clever trick I can do, to allow my home net to use the > available > > bandwidth on both connections? It would be weird, as they would both > have a > > very different real-world IP... But is it in any way possible? Seems > a shame

Re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread jbradford
> >> Seems a > >> shame > >> to have this bandwidth knocking about unused. > > Try a google search on shutgun internet access, a modem manufacturer > a few years ago came out with a kit to use two dialup modems to get > 106K access. You might find something that way. There basically > has

Re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread jbradford
> I recently (yesterday) upgraded my home internet connection from BT ADSL > (512k/256k), to NTL Cable(1Mb/256k), for the extra speed. However, > for the next 30 days I seem to be the owner of two broadband connections in > my home. > > I have a linux (2.4.19) box running as the gateway for my hom

Re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread Dragos LUNGU
Simon wrote: > Hi, Hi, [...] > Is there a clever trick I can do, to allow my home net to use the available > bandwidth on both connections? It would be weird, as they would both have a > very different real-world IP... But is it in any way possible? Seems a shame > to have this bandwidth knock

re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections?

2002-10-17 Thread Alan Womack
>> Seems a >> shame >> to have this bandwidth knocking about unused. Try a google search on shutgun internet access, a modem manufacturer a few years ago came out with a kit to use two dialup modems to get 106K access. You might find something that way. There basically has to be a layer