Re: Aggregating channels...

[Chad Loder <cloder@acm.org>]

I've been trying to solve the same problem. One company in
Australia, Stallion (www.stallion.com) apparently has a
product called ePipe that will bond disparate connections
together. From what I can tell on their website, the product
runs OpenBSD embedded on a Motorola ColdFire processor.

I haven't tried the product, don't know how well it works,
etc. But if you're dying for a turnkey OpenBSD based solution,
you might check it out.

         Chad Loder

At Monday 12/3/2001 02:49 PM -0700, you wrote:
>AFAIK, you cannot do this with two separate providers, as the routes from
>the Internet to each of those would be totally different.
>
>This is typically only done using data lines connected to the same
>provider (i.e. dual T1's or the like), and even then I don't think obsd
>(or any other *nix system) provides this feature, I've only ever seen it
>on routers.
>
>The only way to "aggregate" the bandwidth on those lines would be to
>somehow split connections across them, where you just alternate sessions
>between lines (but a session would always travel the line it originated
>on, jumping to the other would be impossible).  If you figure out how to
>do this, let us know! =)
>
>- Ralph