BONDING 2 INTERNET CONNECTIONS

i have several computers hooked up on a network, among 3 houses. One
of the computers is running windows xp, and internet connection
sharing, which provides internet to the rest of the network. Recently
we have optained another rogers account, in another house, which we
would like bonded, to possibly increase our internet speed. After
reasearching a bit, we've come across many part solutions involving a
linux box. Say we do get a linux box, running Red Hat, how would we
bond the 2 internet connections together.

On 27 Nov 2003 09:01:43 -0800, Avi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> i have several computers hooked up on a network, among 3 houses. One
> of the computers is running windows xp, and internet connection
> sharing, which provides internet to the rest of the network. Recently
> we have optained another rogers account, in another house, which we
> would like bonded, to possibly increase our internet speed. After
> reasearching a bit, we've come across many part solutions involving a
> linux box. Say we do get a linux box, running Red Hat, how would we
> bond the 2 internet connections together.

Bonding has to be done at both ends. So you would either need a
cooperative ISP, or access to some other internet host faster than your 2
connections combined. In fact if the remote bonding host had only 1
internet connection, it would have to be more than twice as fast as your 2
connections combined, to reach full speed. And I do not know who would
let you do that, because they would get blamed for anything you do even if
unintentional (your traffic would appear to come from their IP).

What you could do more easily is more specific routing, load balancing or
using the other connection for backup (see Adv-Routing HOWTO).

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On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:01:43 -0800, Avi wrote:

> i have several computers hooked up on a network, among 3 houses. One
> of the computers is running windows xp, and internet connection
> sharing, which provides internet to the rest of the network. Recently
> we have optained another rogers account, in another house, which we
> would like bonded, to possibly increase our internet speed. After
> reasearching a bit, we've come across many part solutions involving a
> linux box. Say we do get a linux box, running Red Hat, how would we
> bond the 2 internet connections together.

I have not tested this myself...
So, if you get it to work, please post how - TIA.

For multiple PPP links have a look here:
http://www.cwareco.com/download/eqlplus.html

And this looks like it might work for any two links:
http://qos.dyndns.org:3389/cgi-bin/f...file=1#file_44

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Avi wrote:

> Say we do get a linux box, running Red Hat, how would we
> bond the 2 internet connections together.

Super Glue? ;-)

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"Avi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> i have several computers hooked up on a network, among 3 houses. One
> of the computers is running windows xp, and internet connection
> sharing, which provides internet to the rest of the network. Recently
> we have optained another rogers account, in another house, which we
> would like bonded, to possibly increase our internet speed. After
> reasearching a bit, we've come across many part solutions involving a
> linux box. Say we do get a linux box, running Red Hat, how would we
> bond the 2 internet connections together.

This is a dual-headed problem -- you can't fix it from JUST your end. The
ISP will need to configure their end, too.

JW

(E-Mail Removed) (Avi) writes:

>i have several computers hooked up on a network, among 3 houses. One
>of the computers is running windows xp, and internet connection
>sharing, which provides internet to the rest of the network. Recently
>we have optained another rogers account, in another house, which we
>would like bonded, to possibly increase our internet speed. After
>reasearching a bit, we've come across many part solutions involving a
>linux box. Say we do get a linux box, running Red Hat, how would we
>bond the 2 internet connections together.

About the best you are going to get, is to round-robin the
two interfaces. Search in the advanced routing howto for
ip route equalize. Thus connection 1 goes out eth0 and
connection 2 goes out eth1 and round and round. It does
manage to balance out the load in a crude fashion, although
you are never going to get the double the speed. In fact I
can't see how you would get double the speed unless you had
same routers on each end of ISP connection doing something.
Cisco also does this, but odds are you are being cheap.
If you want a faster connection, you are probably going
to have to pay for a faster one. Not to mention your
network diagram is a bit incomplete, leaving it difficult
to provide much more advice. Most solutions assume you
have a router in a single location, since you have apparently
3 houses and ISP connections are in different houses it's
hard to see how to accomplish what you want.




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> About the best you are going to get, is to round-robin the
> two interfaces. Search in the advanced routing howto for
> ip route equalize. Thus connection 1 goes out eth0 and
> connection 2 goes out eth1 and round and round. It does
> manage to balance out the load in a crude fashion, although
> you are never going to get the double the speed. In fact I
> can't see how you would get double the speed unless you had
> same routers on each end of ISP connection doing something.
> Cisco also does this, but odds are you are being cheap.
> If you want a faster connection, you are probably going
> to have to pay for a faster one. Not to mention your
> network diagram is a bit incomplete, leaving it difficult
> to provide much more advice. Most solutions assume you
> have a router in a single location, since you have apparently
> 3 houses and ISP connections are in different houses it's
> hard to see how to accomplish what you want.


We have all the computers from all 3 houses connected to one HUB, the
first computer in the first house, has windows xp and a rogers
connection, which routes the internet connection via 'Microsoft
Internet Connection Sharing' thats built into the operating system.
That has worked fine up to now. The second house now has rogers @home
set up to it, just like the first house. The second house has a
computer has the internet connection and shares it using the 'MS
internet connection sharing, provided by windows xp. It is the same
setup as the first house. The problem is, the other computers on the
network can only receive internet off one gateway, either from house
#1 or house #2, istn' there a way that we can bridge the 2 gateways?,
windows xp doesn't show the 2 gateways in 'Internet Connections', it
only shows one.