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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!esmeralda.access.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!cmir.arnes.si!k2.net!news From: Darko Bulat <darko.bulat@K2.net> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: multi-link ppp for bonding 2 or more ppp connections ? Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:46:53 +0100 Organization: K2.net, ISP for Slovenia (try http://www.k2.net/) Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3277BEBD.2C14@K2.net> References: <554v04$dks$1@hock.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: darko.k2.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) To: "M.C Wong" <wongm@lespoir.apana.org.au> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.ppp:15729 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5210 M.C Wong wrote: > > Hi, > I wonder does multi-link PPP is OK for used for bonding of 2 or more > separate lines from the same site to the same destination site ? What I want > to be able to do is to have 2 or more 9.6K analog leased line between 2 > locations, and carry digital data over them (using modem operating in sync > mode) for cheap (or cost-effective) data connection for WAN and Internet > access. Since with the 9.6K analog leased line I can squeeze up to 33.6K > of digital data on to each of the line, I was hoping that with multi-link > PPP, it can do bonding of more than one such 33.6K pipe to form a bigger > pipe with greater aggregated bandwidth and still works out to be MUCH MUCH > cheaper than one single ISDN or 64K digital leased line. In general, two analog leased lines (type M.1020 for example) cost more than one digital 64 kbps leased line. But that may wary.. > I plan to use BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux for such applications if > availability of multi-link PPP (with sync PPP support as well) software and > reliability is ready. Failing that, I appreciate if someone can suggest some > other alternatives from companies like Cisco or Bay who may provide boxes that > do multi-link PPP for my requirement. Cisco boxes would do the job.. Regards! Darko Bulat, K2.net