On Wednesday 31 July 2002 01:38 pm, Lance Linder wrote: > Hello, > > Being new to the list and relatively new to Linux please don't flame me > to badly ;) That said here is my problem I am trying to solve. > > In my situation phone lines and dial up connections are relatively cheap > but broadband connections of any kind are either non existent or > ridiculously expensive. What I am hoping to be able to do is set up a > Linux server/router/firewall for a small LAN of say 4+ desktops. I > would like to have 2+ modems connected to the Linux box and run some > software on this box that will balance a load across multiple modems. > > The first question is would this be possible? Does Linux or some > utility that runs on Linux have the capability to balance a load across > X number of modems and would it be possible that this could increase > available bandwidth for the client machines or would it sill only be 56k > max for any given machine? I looked at doing this about 2-3 years ago. At the time I was using multi-link on NT, and wanted to move to Linux. I searched the newsgroups on multi-link and Linux, and found somebody in Australia had written something. I sent him an e-mail and he was very helpful. I never actually did do it. My isp was strictly NT, and couldn't handle multi-link from anything else--that is something you have to check into, your ISP has to be able to sync the lines on their end also. Multi-link allows you to add the bandwidth of the modems together. I had 3 56K modems, with a resulting effective bandwidth of about 147K. Not a direct answer to your question, but HTH. -- Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist dot com 952-368-3278 ext 396 fax 952-368-3255