[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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