[ale] Bandwidth aggregation?

[Trey Darley]

Hey, y'all. I've been lurking for a while, but finally I have a problem to 
throw out there for discussion.
Here's the situation: I want to aggregate the bandwidth of two dsls. I 
don't know if this could be done with some kind of round-robin routing 
(for lack of knowing what else to call what I have in mind.) Another 
alternative is to isolate specific types of traffic to one pipe or the 
other - keeping interactive flowing smoothly is always nice. My client 
presently has these two dsls for redundancy - smart - but one is just 
sitting idle. Is there any better way of automating a failover than by 
just writing crontabbing some scripts that check and take action 
accordingly? 
I guess the real question is how the return path would work... unless a 
particular session had the same origin, it seems things would get fubared. 
PPP Multilink Protocol?? The RFC looked vaguely promising.
Just for the record, I *did* google and deja this. Also re-read the 
advanced routing howto (which is a bit incomplete). Any of y'all done 
something similar to this?

Thanks!

--Trey

P.S. To everyone who bought hardware off of me prior to my Great Central 
European Escape, thanks! You guys rock! What more can I say in praise of 
ALE but that y'all paid my rent in Prague for a couple of months?! :-)
 
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Trey Darley
System Administrator / Network Engineer
AIS Computers
165 Carnegie PLace
Fayetteville, GA 30214
Work: 770.461.2147, ext. 128
Mobile: 404.455.1516

[Please note that the opinions I express are not to be in any way 
construed as those of AIS, unless that is expressly stated.]

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