Jay, I understand that each connection would only be allowed a maximum speed of my upload bandwidth on a single ip. If I can specify which NIC device to TX on per ip, It should work. I am doing it right now, the problem is i have to add the ip to the routing table by hand. I am looking for a daemon which would manage the connections to do this on a larger scale. In a sense, do the work I can do but 24/7 when I am not around. You make very good points, but I have determined since my first e-mail that it can be done. Now the question is how. --- "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> > wrote: >Sorry, probably not going to work. Just because you assign 2 ip's to a box, >doesn't make it get double the bandwidth. > >If you had 2 cable modem connections to the same provider, you could >theoretically do it, but your cable provider would have to provide some >special stuff in their configs to make it work. Even so, you wouldn't get >double the bandwidth to a single host, but your aggregate bandwidth could be >around double. > >If I get 2 t-1's to some provider, say ATT. I then download file from some >site, the most I will most likely be able to get for bandwidth is the max >speed of one of those t-1's (1.544Mbps). If ATT has Cisco equipment, and I >have Cisco equip, and they configure ip cef (Cisco Express Forwarding), and >I do the same, it will do some load balancing on a packet by packet basis, >and use some of both of the t-1's, which would allow me to get more than >1.544Mbps on the download. However, this would suck for gaming as packets >arrive out of order on a much more frequent basis when using this method. > >In any case, your cable modem provider will not do anything for you on this >one, and I suspect that the equipment they use for cable modem service >probably wouldn't support what you want to do anyway. Get yourself a DSL >line. Your download speeds are lower, but upload will be comparable, and >most DSL providers don't care if you run servers. > >Jay > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chuck Larson [mailto:wyatt at coolsend.com] >> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 5:33 PM >> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> Subject: [TCLUG] Dynamic routing. Anyone know something about it? >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I am new to the list, and hope I can contribute and get some >> good advice. >> >> I am currently attempting to use 2 external ips to host a >> game server on my cable modem( shh, don't tell anyone). If I >> am still correct( since I recently moved down from St. >> Cloud, and could do this. ), I would double the amount of >> upload bandwidth available for multiple connections. >> Currently I can manually enter in an ip, using route, I can >> tell the kernel to use the second ip( ethernet card ) to >> connect to that host. The question is how do I enable the >> kernel to automatically do this without me sitting at the >> console and manually do it. I have currently looked at bird, >> but I haven't taken huge amount of time to do this because I >> have to learn how to configure it first. Has anyone >> attempted this or know how? I could use a ( or few ) good >> pointers on this. I am getting more confident that this can >> be done. The question is, what the best way? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Chuck Larson. >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> Domain powered by www.iReg.com >> E-mail powered by www.1FreeEmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> tclug-list mailing list >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _____________________________________________________________ Domain powered by www.iReg.com E-mail powered by www.1FreeEmail.com