LARTC - Jan 2002 - Question regarding loadsharing and bonding

Hi,

My question is if you can use load sharing to simulate or substitute
bonding of connection lines.

Background:

I live in South Africa where ISDN is sold as a new technology and ADSL
is not available to us. Most ISP''s are not able to do ISDN bonding, so
the maks down load that you are able to get is 64k. Getting an ISP to do
anything is a miracle.

Is it possible to install 2 ISDN cards and do load sharing on them? I
know the throughput will not be 100%. What will the through put be and
is it possible to monitor and change the methods that are used?

Regards

Wayne

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:38:05PM +0200, Wayne Fallows wrote:
> Is it possible to install 2 ISDN cards and do load sharing on them? I
> know the throughput will not be 100%. What will the through put be and
> is it possible to monitor and change the methods that are used?
It is very hard to get a single TCP/IP session to go faster. It is pretty
easy to distribute sessions over two ISDN connections by using the ip route
nexthop syntax (find it with google). If you have a lot of computers behind
your router, that will help.

Regards,

bert

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