[H-GEN] Load balancing ADSL links

Stuart Longland stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org
Tue Dec 30 20:26:06 EST 2003


David Findlay wrote:

> Is there a good way under Linux to load balance multiple ADSL links? Thanks,
> 

Are the ADSL lines using PPPoE?  If so, the following may be of some 
help... (I wouldn't know, I've never tried)

 From linux-2.4.23/Documentation/Configure.help:

> PPP multilink support
> CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK
>   PPP multilink is a protocol (defined in RFC 1990) which allows you
>   to combine several (logical or physical) lines into one logical PPP
>   connection, so that you can utilize your full bandwidth.
> 
>   This has to be supported at the other end as well and you need a
>   version of the pppd daemon which understands the multilink protocol.
> 
>   If unsure, say N.


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