On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, David Mackay wrote: > Bananaskin wrote: > > > I believe that pppoa3 can handle multiple modems.. > > > > man pppoa3 > > Yes, I saw that. I was hoping for someone that had actually DONE it. > We have a school system locally that has two T1s serving 65+ sites, and > the T1s are at about 90% utilization during school hours. Most of what > they're doing is web access, so the fact that the outgoing bandwidth > would be much lower than the downstream bandwidth wouldn't be a problem. > If they could plug in four adsl lines, they could increase their > downstream bandwidth (potentially, I don't know how far they are from > the DSLAM), and cut their costs. I know that you can use the -m flag to > specify the modem number, but I wonder about other gotchas. Alex has > already mentioned that I'd need a powered hub. What else could bite me? > > Dave > Given that you can run each modem on a <100GBP computer, does it really matter if you can't run them all on the same machine?
OK, it might be nice if you can but I would have thought a fifth box providing load balancing would be as easy to set up. Regards, Tim. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://locofungus.2y.net/ http://www.locofungus.btinternet.co.uk/ Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
