From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com Subject: Re: Sharing bandwidth across multiple internet connections? Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:02:35 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200210171502.g9HF2Z00003906@darkstar.example.net> References: <3DAED964.6030901@xts.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3DAED964.6030901@xts.ro> from "Dragos LUNGU" at Oct 17, 2002 05:38:12 PM List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Dragos LUNGU Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > > Simon wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > [...] > > > Is there a clever trick I can do, to allow my home net to use the > available > > bandwidth on both connections? It would be weird, as they would both > have a > > very different real-world IP... But is it in any way possible? Seems > a shame > > to have this bandwidth knocking about unused. > > I'm in the same situation (I subscribed to a second provider) and I've > google'd all afternoon about this issue. I think I found what I need and > maybe this is what you need as well : > > 4.2. Routing for multiple uplinks/providers > A common configuration is the following, in which there are two > providers that connect a local network (or even a single machine) to the > big Internet. > > http://www.lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html Assuming that you want to use this bandwidth primarily for downloading applications, as opposed to running servers, make sure that you weight the connections based on the downstream bandwidth. I mean, if you had a 512/256K ADSL line, and a 2048/256K ADSL line, instead of weighting them equally, it's best to send more data out over the 2048/256K line, because you'll get more replies _back_ through it. John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs