Ramon Gandia wrote:
> Multilink PPP is the Livingston/Lucent protocol. It does NOT
> work except with ISDN. Most of these load balancing protocols
> are asynchronous. Read my commenta above carefully.
This is simply NOT true. The operating system that must not be named
does this with it's NT and 98 versions and will even do it with 95 if
you install the appropriate upgrades. A number of people may have
gotten confused because they called those upgrades the ISDN upgrades
but MLPPP works perfectly well with standard asynchronous modems of
any speed. You can even mix modems of different speeds but the
highest speed modems give you the best return on your investment in
the phone lines. I have been disappointed that for a long time Linux
was not supporting MLPPP, it is good to hear that this is now
changing.
In the meantime I got around the lack of support by purchasing a
Netopia Dual Analog Router which handles MLPPP at the router so that
the boxen on my net don't need to worry about it themselves. 3Com has
a similar product as well.
--
Traci Collins, MA
Professor of Computer Education
Colorado Mountain College
http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html
