[LARTC] multiple providers

[LARTC] multiple providers

[kmon fox]

Hello, I just stumbled across LARTC and am really excited beacuse i think this is exactly what I needed. Several friends of mine are within wlan range of each other and we all have our own cable modem connections. We wanted to 'bind' our connections together so that if one user wasnt using his connection his bandwidth would be split between the remaining users. How would i go about doing this? At this time their are 5-7 people wanting to be a part of this, but 30-50 people will want to join in once we get things working. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.  
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Re: [LARTC] multiple providers

[Damion de Soto]

kmon fox wrote:
> Hello, I just stumbled across LARTC and am really excited beacuse i 
> think this is exactly what I needed. Several friends of mine are within
> wlan range of each other and we all have our own cable modem connections.
> We wanted to 'bind' our connections together so that if one user wasnt
> using his connection his bandwidth would be split between the remaining
> users. How would i go about doing this? At this time their are 5-7 people
> wanting to be a part of this, but 30-50 people will want to join in once
> we get things working. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.  

Unfortunately, I don't think it would really be worth the effort.
You could setup some routing and QoS on everyone's gateways to allow
for a type of fail-over situtation, where if your connection was down
you could use other peoples' bandwidth.
I can't think of any way for your gateway to know when its bandwidth
was all used up, and start trying WLAN routes - maybe someone else does though.

And trying to set it up with 5-7 (30-50) peoples routes would be a nightmare to try 
and track who was utilising all their bandwidth and who wasn't.
You'd need some kind of dynamic routing protocol that knew about QoS.

that's my 2c worth.


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Re: [LARTC] multiple providers

[Steve Wright]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 12:05, Damion de Soto wrote:
> kmon fox wrote:
> > Hello, I just stumbled across LARTC and am really excited beacuse i 
> > think this is exactly what I needed. Several friends of mine are within
> > wlan range of each other and we all have our own cable modem connections.
> > We wanted to 'bind' our connections together so that if one user wasnt
> > using his connection his bandwidth would be split between the remaining
> > users. How would i go about doing this? At this time their are 5-7 people
> > wanting to be a part of this, but 30-50 people will want to join in once
> > we get things working. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.  
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't think it would really be worth the effort.

nonsense.  This will be an excellent little network, and very exciting
too.

google for "policy routing book" - there is an example in there
somewhere.


/steve



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Re: [LARTC] multiple providers

[Sebastian A. Aresca]

> Unfortunately, I don't think it would really be worth the effort.

I agree with you Steve. I am working in the same project (wireless, my case)
but now
i don't have any document to send. So if you are patient i will send you all
i have.
Policies, test, and everything.

So i only can say "be patient".

Best regards.

Sebastian A. Aresca

> Hello, I just stumbled across LARTC and am really excited beacuse i
> think this is exactly what I needed. Several friends of mine are within
> wlan range of each other and we all have our own cable modem connections.
> We wanted to 'bind' our connections together so that if one user wasnt
> using his connection his bandwidth would be split between the remaining
> users. How would i go about doing this? At this time their are 5-7 people
> wanting to be a part of this, but 30-50 people will want to join in once
> we get things working. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.


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Re: [LARTC] multiple providers

[Steve Wright]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:39, Sebastian A. Aresca wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I don't think it would really be worth the effort.
> 
> I agree with you Steve. I am working in the same project (wireless, my case)

ahhh, as am I..

> but now
> i don't have any document to send. So if you are patient i will send you all
> i have.
> Policies, test, and everything.
> 
> So i only can say "be patient".

I can be patient about something like that..  8-)

Better still, perhaps we can work together.  I have a couple of things
built so far that may benefit you, and probably vice-versa.


/steve


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[LARTC] multiple providers

[Payal Rathod]

Hi,
I have Mandrake 10.0 (official). I have read the section in lartc about
"Routing for multiple uplinks/providers", but still I have some queries 
below.
I have a DSL connection where they give pppoe which is directly terminated
into eth1 of my Linux box. Now I have another machine connected to dial-up
and it is on same LAN connected to eth0 of Linux box. Now, can I use
both these bandwidths (this is a test exercise to understand lartc) and
do sort of load balancing? Is there any patching needed for my kernel?
How do I make sure that indeed both the lines are used?

Thanks a lot for any help in advance.
With warm regards,
-Payal

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