[ale] Bandwidth aggregation?

[Taylor Robison]

I have no personal experience to share but I remembered this slashdot 
review from a while back.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/30/1850236

Its a $400 router/switch that can take two "boradband" inputs and 
loadbalance between them.

Maybe this could be a way to use both lines without a lot of 
config/support issues.

Taylor

Trey Darley wrote:

>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
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>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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