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From: lam@awod.com (Ken Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: inverse multiplexing
Date: 22 Aug 1996 02:19:30 GMT
Organization: Integrated Technical Systems
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In article <3218FA4E.3F54BC7E@whistle.com>, julian@whistle.com says...
>
>Steve Hovey wrote:
> 
>> Somewhere, somewhen I saw either a post in usenet or on the freebsd
>> mailing list about the possibility of inverse multiplexing on freebsd
>> (what I mean is using more than 1 28.8 modem for a larger combined
>> bandwidth)  I dont remember what the result of it all was.
> 
>> Is there such a thing possible with freebsd?
>
>wait a week or so for the release of mpd
>(multiplexing PPP Daemon)
>
>can run several modems at once....

You might also try mslip (it's on the BSDI ftp site), probably
not as elegant a solution as mpd (is mpd doing multilink PPP?).

-k

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