From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damion de Soto Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:05:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] multiple providers Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damion de Soto - Software Engineer email: damion@snapgear.com SnapGear --- ph: +61 7 3435 2809 | Custom Embedded Solutions fax: +61 7 3891 3630 | and Security Appliances web: http://www.snapgear.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/