[lug] Anyone with PPP multilink experience?

Harris, James James_Harris at maxtor.com
Thu Mar 21 09:56:25 MST 2002


Howdy all --

I've hit a new low of desperation for speed and am looking into multilink
PPP as an option.  Looks pretty do-able, and FRII supports it for $35/mo
total.  I can get work to pay for half the total cost of the two phone lines
and the ISP charge, so overall, it seems like I could get a pretty decent
boost for cheap.  I'm wondering if anyone has any experiences that they
would be able to share with this type of setup; gotcha's, things to
consider, recommendations, additional reading, etc.?

My intent is to use the 2.4.x series of PPP and the kernel to get true
multilink support.  I'm still a bit unclear about some of the technical info
surrounding multilink.  My biggest question is: can I down the second
portion of the bundle if I need to use the second phone line, or do both
portions of the bundle _always_ have to be up for it to work?

I'd love to hear any feedback that anyone would have to offer.  I've looked
into ISDN and with the extra cost of the hardware and setup, it seems like
multilink would be an acceptably cheaper alternative (I already have the
phone lines and second, matched V.90 modem avail.)  Right now I'm
consistently getting about 43k when I dialup, so x2 = wouldn't be bad.  I
understand that the latency won't improve, but that's what Squid and DNS
caching are for right?  :-)

Thanks!
Jim Harris



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