I always used multiple links from different ISPs and in my oppinion the best way to really aggregate bandwidth is using some kind of proxy which the client connects to and distribute multiple connections to the links. Years ago, a friend of mine wrote Netsplitter: http://www.hostname.org/netsplitter/ but it's outdated, abandoned (last version from 2002). And it was mainly written for FreeBSD but could run on Linux too. Another project which supposed to aggregate bandwidth was eqlplus, which is outdated too: http://www.technetra.com/solutions/eqlplus/ Main Netsplitter advantages over eqlplus: 1) it doesn't require kernel patches, it runs completely in user space 2) it isn't restricted to serial lines (slip, uncompressed ppp). Finally we can use our ethernet links :) 3) simpler configuration Anyway, I'd like to ask if somebody knows about some other project similar to these. With netsplitter everything was so simple, I redirect the connections to the netsplitter daemon, which acts like a proxy, and opened multiple connections to a ftp/http/whatever server and it distributed the connections over the links... very nice. This way we don't have to mess with the kernel. The method is elegant and transparent. Thanks! -- Linux 2.6.22: Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! http://www.lastfm.pt/user/danielfraga http://u-br.net Alphaville - "Big in Japan" (First Harvest 1984-92) _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
