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>1. Cable Internet. Has anyone tried using locally-available cable
>systems on Linux? My rumbles off the Howto's and talks with my friends
>who do have such systems indicate that this will probably be possible.
>No Destiny in our area; apparently won't have Zpdee until later this
>year. Hopefully neither of these companies will be Windows bigots
>(seems more true of Zpdee than Destiny; at least they have an entry in
>their FAQ for nonstandard OS's!). Have no idea what their policy is
>regarding multi-homed hosts which act as router-firewalls either. Does
>anyone have authoritative information?
I'm not sure if you are allowed to re-sell cable access.
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>2. Serial-line load balancing. Two modems, two phone lines, double the
>bandwidth. However the kernel driver hasn't been updated in a while and
>am not sure if this would work with just any ISP.
I remember trying this with Portmasters and Cisco and it worked .
Problem with this is that it does not do compression like PPP.
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>3. Multiple default routes. Not as good as load balancing, but also
>involves two modems and two phone lines. Not even sure if it's possible
>to formulate firewall rules to make half of our hosts get their packets
>forwarded through ppp0 and the other half through ppp1...
>
>Any other suggestions? Our bandwidth price ceiling is about PhP
>6000/month. Any suggestions which cost significantly more than this are
>useless. Thanks a lot!
6000 a month for two links ... no way will an ISP give you such service.
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