Re: bonding 2 adsl lines

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Hi,
Thanks for your answer,

I´ll talk with my ISP to see what we can do.

I thought I could do something without them but it looks impossible.

I´ll investigate the routing policy, it´s better than nothing ;-)

Greetings

ESG

2009/6/24 Steve Phillips <steve.phillips@xxxxxxxxx>

> The problem with 'bonding' two DSL lines as you've done with the ethernet
> ports is that it is heavily dependant upon your ISP. and it's unlikely that
> an ISP would offer this as a consumer service (I could be wrong however)
>
> What some people do however is put things like a routing policy in place
> which can direct some traffic over one link and some over a second link in
> order to distribute load. the problem with this is its never really 100%,
> you'd need to work out what the traffic habits of the people using the
> links
> are and then manually try and balance the load based on things like
> protocol
> and destination/source IP addresses.
>
> If you want to persue this then try looking for 'policy routing howto' with
> google, a quick howto for source based routing can be seen at..
>
> http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt
>
> If you want to persue DSL link bonding, call your ISP and ask about setting
> up multilink PPP over DSL and find out if they do it.
>
> Of note, you cannot do link bonding with links terminating at two different
> ISPs, both DSL circuits would need to be to the same ISP. (just a FYI)
>
> --
> Steve.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:04 PM, ESGLinux <esggrupos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I made a question about bonding some time ago (
> > http://www.pubbs.net/redhat/200902/24872/)
> >
> > The solution you gave me was greatfull. Now I want to give a new step.
> >
> > is it possible to make bonding with 2 adsl lines with a red hat linux
> > server? I suposse I need especial hardware to do it, (for example to plug
> > the wan cables,)
> >
> > My objective is to use my 2 adsl lines as it was only one with double
> > bandwitdh.
> >
> > any suggestion?
> >
> > ESG
> >
> > PS: just one litle question more: trunking and bonding are the same? if
> not
> > which is the difference?
> >
> > TIA.
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