Tim Woodall said: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Alex Bennee wrote: > >> Jim Morrison [Mailinglists] said: >> > >> > Hello guys.. >> > >> > Does anyone know if it's possible to get two 500k BT ADSL lines >> > running in multilink? By which I mean, appearing as 1x >> > 1Mb:DownStream and 500k:UpStream line? (Through a linux box of >> > course ;) >> > >> > I guess there would be obvious problems like the two lines having >> > different IP addresses etc..?? >> >> Yes its possible if you do shenanigans with linux traffic control to >> split packets between two links. Its probably worth reading up the >> Linux Advanced Routing howto for ideas on how this could be done. >> > Surely this only works for outgoing traffic anyway. If you are running > a busy webserver then you could accept requests on one ip but "spoof" > the replies on the other line (assuming that the ISP doesn't filter > them) but there is no way AFAICT to get this to work for downloads. > Downloading a single iso from an FTP site is going to only be able to > use one line.
Yes, but a multi-threaded download could take advantage of the two links, then again its all a bit too much effort IMNSHO. You certainly wouldn't get the same performance as a dedicated 1M ADSL line. Alex www.bennee.com/~alex/ Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
