Re: [LARTC] Load Balance Outbound AND Inbound Internet Traffic to one location over multiple links

[Joe Nuts <joenuts@gmail.com>]

Thanks again for the response, Andy.
I've done a tremendous amount of research, and set-up to test the
multi-link ppp, and I still have not been successful in my search.
The problem i've found out from working with ppp, and pppoe, is that I
can only create a ppp connection between two devices on the same
broadcast network. I.E. two devices connected by some kind of bridged
ethernet.
This wouldnt be an option for me, because the DSL connections to the
client make it to the ISP over an ATM line, directly to a router. The
router plugs in to a layer-2 switch, which then our server plugs in
to.
I would need to create maybe a GRE tunnel from the client to the
server, so that the pppoe client requests would make it to the server,
to then create the ppp connection.

And that's just to get the one connection going, i'd like to be able
to multilink multiple connections.

If there were some way to multilink gre (or IPIP) tunnels, to get
combined bandwith on single connections, that would be ideal. But I
have not found any solutions along those lines.
My next attempts will be multilink pppoe tunnels over gre tunnels, and
I'm also researching what BSD has to offer in that arena.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks
-Joe Comeaux

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:03:44 +0000, Andy Furniss
<andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Joe Nuts wrote:
> > I have boxes at both ends of the link. I have spent my whole day
> > searching the internet on anything to do with 'multilink ppp', and
> > have not found any decent documentation on how to set something like
> > that up. perhaps somone could point me to something?
> 
> I am not sure about setting up a server, but there must be a few
> examples of client setups around for ISDN. Here is one for DSL
> 
> http://www.freestuffjunction.co.uk/bondedadsl.shtml
> 
> 
> > As for the setup, server at the ISP has one public IP A, on public
> > network A. it receives/routes traffic for public network B.
> > the server at the client site has two public IP's, X and Y on public
> > network X and Y.
> > I would like for traffic sent to public network B to make it to client
> > computer, divided across the two IP's X, and Y. (this traffic will of
> > course go through server at the ISP, which will do the work in
> > splitting the traffic up)
> 
> You probably know more advanced routing than me - I have never played
> about with complicated setups. As far as using ppp  - I don't think you
> have to worry about IP addresses too much - it's link level, so I think
> you can send whatever you like down it and it will appear at the other end.
> 
> Andy.
> 
>
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