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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple PPP connections
Date: 4 Jun 1997 09:25:51 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5n28qi$792@nntp.interaccess.com>,
jcook@interaccess.com (Jeffrey J. Cook) writes:
> Does anyone know of an easy way of connecting to an ISP via multiple PPP
> modem connections, and have the bandwidth shared among them, not
> multilinking as my ISP doesn't support that, but just multiple data
> channels? Will the user PPP I will be using with masquerading work
> natively with this or will special configs need to be done?
Can't be done without multilink ppp. Both the local and remote side
need to decide which physical line to send packets down based on
load. This is a little tricky, so multilink ppp was created :)
> Jeffrey J. Cook
> jcook@interaccess.com
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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