>>>>> "William" == William T Mullaney <William> writes:
William> To my knowledge, there is no way to download one file
William> from two different connections connected to two different
William> ISPs at the same time. If you are running BGP then you
William> might be able to load balance across the two links, but
William> that would require your upstream providers to allow you
William> to use it, and possibly the purchase of a public AS
William> number an IP address space depending on the setup. If
William> you are doing NAT past this link (IE both of your lines
William> go two the same ISP and same address blocks, but they
William> want to give you 2x 10mb links for 20mb total), then you
William> can look at doing load balancing on layer 2 (Fast
William> EtherChannel, bonding, Link Aggregate Groups, whatever),
William> or creating 2 PPP style links between the computers and
William> using a routing protocol like OSPF, EIGRP (but not on
William> Linux) or something. I believe OSPF does equal cost load
William> balancing, BGP and EIGRP can, I think, do unequal cost
William> load balancing. But either way, I don't think that's the
William> solution in your case.
William> The only other option I can think of would be some sort
William> of software that sends every other packet to a different
William> IP or something, which would need to run at the end you
William> are downloading at or maybe at your ISPs, but I can't
William> think of anything like that.
Wouldn't some download manager software that splits the file up into
multiple simultaneous downloads do the trick? Agreed, not a single
download across multiple ISPs, but definitely a single file across
multiple ISPs.
Regards,
-- Raju
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