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| message from MancLad on 16 Sep 2003 |
Hi,
I have 2 ADSl lines comming into my house. The 1st is my provate line and
the 2nd is paid for by my work. Work have now allowed me to use this
business line for personal use and I was wondering if I can bundle the 2
lines together to create a 1MegDL 512 UL line.
The two lines will be connected to different ISP's and so be issued
different IP address's. If I put 2 PCi modems into my XP machine will XP
load balance or do I need to buy some software/hardware to take care of the
bundling and load balancing for me. I would really like to use this extra
bandwidth to set-up high capacity gaming servers and other usful things ;)
Any ideas are apprciated.
Thanks in advance.
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| MancLad replied to MancLad on 16 Sep 2003 |
Thanks for the prompt reply but just for the curiosity of it - how come ?
Regards
Steve
"Philip SC" <abuse@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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| Philip SC replied to MancLad on 16 Sep 2003 |
Given that IP traffic travels in packets across different network routes and
in some cases in different sizes, can you imagine how incredibly complicated
it would be to recombine them?
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| MancLad replied to Philip SC on 16 Sep 2003 |
Simple when I think about it - oh well thanks for your help anyway
Regards
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| Mr T replied to MancLad on 17 Sep 2003 |
This is not strictly true as I use two ISPs and two ADSL lines.
It is not dynamic load sharing but I use static routes to send certain
traffic to certain destinations. So for one example I send all my traffic
for Clara to Clara and all my traffic for BT to BT. This means I can
download binaries from BT and Clara at the same time and recombine the
segments using NewsPro to get a download speed of 120KB/s.
You can set up Windows 2000 and XP to have two gateway addresses but it will
only send traffic to one gateway and if that fails it will then switch to
the other gateway and stay then until that fails or the PC is restarted.
Of course if you have more than one PC on your network you could set some to
use Gateway1 as default and the others to use Gateway2 and load share by PC
rather than by traffic.
You could setup a rule for outgoing traffic that certain IP addresses are
routed by Gateway1 and others by Gateway2. This can be by splitting
frequently accessed sites or by a simple rule such as all IP addresses (or
ports) above a certain value go to gateway 1 and all others to gateway 2.
The one thing you have to do is ensure that when you are accessing your ISPs
servers, to ensure that you do not access from both gateways at the same
time as your ISP will see two different IP addresses and assume you are
sharing your account with someone else.
To setup the use of static routes you will normally need a router of some
kind, either an ADSL router that can do this or a PC configured as a router.
You basically write rules that traffic for address "X" uses Gateway "Y". You
can also configure routes from within Windows using the command line "route"
and you can set up persistent routes if you require. It can appear quite
complex when you first try it, but it can be done.
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| -pk- replied to Mr T on 18 Sep 2003 |
Don't give up so easily.
There is software that does dynamic loadsharing across multiple connections
and they don't even have to be on the one machine. i.e. any machine on a
network.
I use a program called Midpoint which is actually a proxy and mail server
but has this wonderful feature of adding mixed connections together (modem,
ISDN or ADSL in any combination)
I think it no longer exists but one of their agents may still have copies.
Do a search on Midcore and Midpoint
regards pk
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| MancLad replied to -pk- on 19 Sep 2003 |
Hi,
Thanks for the info - unfortunatly no luck in finding the software or
anything like it. On the face oif it, it sound like it is exactly what I
need.
Do you know of any other software titles that do something simular or do you
know where I will be able to obtain this software title.
Thanks
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| -pk- replied to MancLad on 22 Sep 2003 |
I have just done a quick search and their UK agents have also closed their
web sites.
www.aubury.co.uk
I don't know of other programs that can do this. Perhaps some other proxy
programs offer this but don't indicate it. I was looking for the terms
multi-gateway, satellite, connection teaming.
You may know Strouds site: http://cws.internet.com/servers the reviews may
be of help.
pk
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| David R Gibson replied to -pk- on 15 Oct 2003 |
Dear All,
Midpoint 4.06 and 5 appear to be available via the Peer to Peer EDonkey
network; my Emule search cites copies but I have not downloaded any, at
least as yet.
HTH,
David
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