I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider. They have now offered me free services, including cable Internet. I currently have a DSL service through the telephone company and, for several reasons including the fact that it is really unlimited service with no cap and it comes with newsgroup access (neither of which the cable service has), I'm not really prepared to give that up. However, since I can get a free cable Internet service too I would like to be able to put that to use. Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet service? Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services like you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your transmission speed? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
on 3-26-2008 12:27 PM Frank Cox spake the following:> I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider. They > have now offered me free services, including cable Internet. I currently have a > DSL service through the telephone company and, for several reasons including the > fact that it is really unlimited service with no cap and it comes with newsgroup > access (neither of which the cable service has), I'm not really prepared to > give that up. > > However, since I can get a free cable Internet service too I would like to be > able to put that to use. > > Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet > service? Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services like > you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your transmission > speed? > >Bonding will only work if the connections terminate at the same place on BOTH ends. Since you are basically using 2 ISP's, that won't work. If you can find a load balancing router someplace, it can send different connections out different ports and keep track of what goes where. But the cost won't be cheap, and I don't know of any consumer level routers that do this. You might be able to get it working with Vyatta and a dedicated computer with multiple ethernet ports. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080326/ddd5f91f/attachment-0001.sig>
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:27 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:> I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider. They > have now offered me free services, including cable Internet. I currently have a > DSL service through the telephone company and, for several reasons including the > fact that it is really unlimited service with no cap and it comes with newsgroup > access (neither of which the cable service has), I'm not really prepared to > give that up. > > However, since I can get a free cable Internet service too I would like to be > able to put that to use. > > Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet > service? Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services like > you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your transmission > speed?The only way that you would be able to use them is a semi-load-balancing formation. What I mean by "semi" is that all traffic that exits one interface will always return to that one. Also, an entire transaction will go over only one of the lines, meaning you will only get the throughput of one line at a time. The only way to "shotgun" (an ISP had to specifically support modem shotgunning in the olden days, BTW), i.e. do aggregate routing, is if you had a separate routed sub-net and ran BGP on the router connected to the two lines (The rest of the internet has to know that you have two lines and both are available to use, concurrently). Needless to say, this can be complicated, and is not considered a "consumer" setup (most providers will require it to be some sort of business type connection like, T and OC connections, which can be on the order of thousands a month, hundreds for a "fractional" T connection). If the the first is acceptable, there are a number of docs like <http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201h/0201h.htm> that would help (I just did a google search for "balance two internet connections linux", first link) and guides that set up a redundant line also should help (it is actually what you are doing, but actively using the "redundant" line also). I hope that addresses what you are asking about. --Tim ______________________________ < I'm definitely not in Omaha! > ------------------------------ \ \ \ \ /\ ( ) .( o ).
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Frank Cox wrote:> I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider. > They have now offered me free services, including cable Internet. I > currently have a DSL service through the telephone company and, for several > reasons including the fact that it is really unlimited service with no cap > and it comes with newsgroup access (neither of which the cable service > has), I'm not really prepared to give that up. > > However, since I can get a free cable Internet service too I would like to > be able to put that to use. > > Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet > service? Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services > like you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your > transmission speed?Getting better answers when posting on two lists? ;) Anyway - I have a similar setup - Fios and cable modem. I use a Xincom router. They are reasonably priced (starting at around $150) and offer two wan uplinks. This way all workstations and servers on my lan side have a single default route and the xincom router distributes the load nicely. It does the normal things like nat, port forwarding, ... you're used to from other home routers. Also allows you to bind certain traffic to a specific side, i.e. all my ftp traffic is going over the cable modem side. If one wan link isn't available, the other link carries the full load. It won't speed up a single process but if you have that much bandwidth, you will anyway end up running a lot of things in parallel. Peter.
Here's what I would get: http://www.netgear.com/Products/VPNandSSL/WiredVPNFirewallRouters/FVS336G.as px TWO wan interfaces in either Failover or Bonded, IPSEC and SSL VPN tunnels..... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122213 I'm REALLY tempted, as I have a Linkproof Branch in my 2 locations to provide failover, and it was WAY more than this, and is a PAIN to configure. Anyway, it's pricy for home, but based on what I've read, its a solid device..... Dennis -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Cox Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:27 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Two Internet connections... I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider. They have now offered me free services, including cable Internet. I currently have a DSL service through the telephone company and, for several reasons including the fact that it is really unlimited service with no cap and it comes with newsgroup access (neither of which the cable service has), I'm not really prepared to give that up. However, since I can get a free cable Internet service too I would like to be able to put that to use. Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet service? Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services like you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your transmission speed? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos