[ale] Bandwidth aggregation?

[rhiannen]

Check out iproute2 - better link then the one I sent offlist earlier is:
http://lartc.org/

(Trey - please forgive the redundancy.)
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rhia
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Trey Darley wrote:
> 
> Hey, y'all. I've been lurking for a while, but finally I have a problem to
> throw out there for discussion.
> Here's the situation: I want to aggregate the bandwidth of two dsls. I
> don't know if this could be done with some kind of round-robin routing
> (for lack of knowing what else to call what I have in mind.) Another
> alternative is to isolate specific types of traffic to one pipe or the
> other - keeping interactive flowing smoothly is always nice. My client
> presently has these two dsls for redundancy - smart - but one is just
> sitting idle. Is there any better way of automating a failover than by
> just writing crontabbing some scripts that check and take action
> accordingly?
> I guess the real question is how the return path would work... unless a
> particular session had the same origin, it seems things would get fubared.
> PPP Multilink Protocol?? The RFC looked vaguely promising.
> Just for the record, I *did* google and deja this. Also re-read the
> advanced routing howto (which is a bit incomplete). Any of y'all done
> something similar to this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --Trey
> 
> P.S. To everyone who bought hardware off of me prior to my Great Central
> European Escape, thanks! You guys rock! What more can I say in praise of
> ALE but that y'all paid my rent in Prague for a couple of months?! :-)
> 
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