Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-25 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be : This is not a so-rare situation, is it? I think it is. And as an ISP employee, I can tell you it's not that easy :-) -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche Developpement

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be : This is not a so-rare situation, is it? I think it is. And as an ISP employee, I can tell you it's not that easy :-) Okay. I did not know it. -- Merciadri Luca See

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-18 Thread Mark Allums
Andrei Popescu wrote: Probably a good start (whatever technology you end up using) is a GNU/Linux (preferably Debian) machine connected to both internet links and your internal network since consumer gateways don't even have more than one WAN port[2]. I would like to point out that

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mark Allums wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Probably a good start (whatever technology you end up using) is a GNU/Linux (preferably Debian) machine connected to both internet links and your internal network since consumer gateways don't even have more than one WAN port[2]. I would like to

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-16 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. I'll try it. Anand Sivaram wrote: This is what I was mentioning before. Support you have two cable/dsl modems connected to a debian machine. Use load balancing using netxhop option of iproute2 as shown by the following link.. http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-16 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks. Anand detailed the way it should be done. Zoran Kolic wrote: Using routing tables, of course. The goal you'd like to get may be tricky the way you post it. Sounds like the application splits the sources and use both. The level of it is different. At least one device should have 2

How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Let's say that you have two internet connections at home, and consequently two devices which link your computer to the Internet. How can you manage, e.g. in Iceweasel/FF, to use one or the other? If you have multiple downloads all the time, it might be an interesting thing to split them among

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Onur Aslan wrote: You're connecting internet via a gateway. You can set a gateway per host with route(8). When you set a gateway to a host, system will use this gateway to connect this host. Sure, but how can I then download different files with different devices (i.e. eth0 and eth1, for

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Onur Aslan
You're connecting internet via a gateway. You can set a gateway per host with route(8). When you set a gateway to a host, system will use this gateway to connect this host. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:22:24PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, Let's say that you have two internet connections at

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread ceduardo
2010/5/15 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be Hi, Let's say that you have two internet connections at home, and consequently two devices which link your computer to the Internet. How can you manage, e.g. in Iceweasel/FF, to use one or the other? If you have multiple downloads

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
ceduardo wrote: 2010/5/15 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be Hi have tow suggestions, The first one. trickle http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle it is bandwidth shaper. The second one bonding

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,15.May.10, 16:32:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: The second one bonding http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bonding whit this one you can plus the bandwidth. `Bonding' seems to achieve what I wanted to do. Thanks. But will probably not work in you

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,15.May.10, 16:32:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: The second one bonding http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bonding whit this one you can plus the bandwidth. `Bonding' seems to achieve what I wanted to do. Thanks.

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 20:09, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat,15.May.10, 16:32:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: The second one bonding http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bonding whit this one you can plus the bandwidth. `Bonding'

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sat, 15 May 2010 16:32:05 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: `Bonding' seems to achieve what I wanted to do. Thanks. Sure? I don't think so :-) Bonding is for ethernet devices, nothing to do with using your router's bandwith. Ethernet bonding is like hard disk raid: it will prevent for a link

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,15.May.10, 16:47:07, Merciadri Luca wrote: But will probably not work in you case, as it was meant to combine two (or more?) network ports from the same computer connected to the same switch. The description says == The Linux bonding driver provides a method for

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,15.May.10, 16:47:07, Merciadri Luca wrote: Bonding is not suitable for you because it works too low-level (it is layer 2), unless you have two links from the same provider, using some technology that can be bonded (like ADSL). AFAIU what you need is

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Zoran Kolic
Let's say that you have two internet connections at home, and consequently two devices which link your computer to the Internet. How can you manage, e.g. in Iceweasel/FF, to use one or the other? If you have multiple downloads all the time, it might be an interesting thing to split them among

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:53, Zoran Kolic zko...@sbb.rs wrote: Let's say that you have two internet connections at home, and consequently two devices which link your computer to the Internet. How can you manage, e.g. in Iceweasel/FF, to use one or the other? If you have multiple