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From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Load Balancing On Async Modems
Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:06:04 GMT
Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V.
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Robert Nagy (nagy@gypsy.topend.com.au) wrote:
: I want to do some load balancing via 2 x 28.8K modems.  I have freebsd2.1
: but can't find any options in the kernel nor any docs to allow this.
Someone told me, that you can setup a gated on both sites which one gated
talks to the other over OSPF (gated.conf). But i have never tried this.

Mostly it's enough to put the 2 lines together for http/ftp-proxy/cache's.
I'm running on both sides harvest-cache's, which uses both ppp-interfaces
for transfering some objects. If one interface is busy by a large 
Background-GIF or a ftp-job from an online-user, the other interface 
would be used to transfer the Rest. It's like loadbalancing for some
www-traffic, and nothing more.

But i have no answer, if you want to split ALL kind of tcp/ip-traffic
over both lines.

Lars.