Trunking Be Connections

Moredhel

Moredhel

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We've currently got Be Unlimited, and as we're about 2 meters from the exchange we get the full 24 mbit. We've also got a second phone line and were wondering what hardware we'd need to trunk 2 connections together. We'd preferably like something "all in one", we wouldn't really want to have 2 be boxes plugged into a third box that plugs into the lan. Something we can plug both lines into one end and a switch into the other (or even has a switch onboard) would be great. Any ideas what we'd need? I seem to remember Cisco doing what we want but I've no idea what to look for.
 
Although I'm not an expert on this but you are going to need enterprise class equipment for this sort of stuff ( or a pc runnin linux probably)

Have a google for load balancing routers. Also Be don't support bonded lines so it is going to be tricky mate in any case.

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You can have 2 lines bonded but the total transfer speed for any session will be limited by the speed of one of the lines, as you can't load balance traffic for one session down 2 adsl lines, unless your running some kind of routing protocol.
You can get boxes which will send and receive traffic via one or the other but not both at the same time, this enables you to have 2 totally different connections working together.
 
.Griff. said:
https://www.bethere.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4992&highlight=bonded

Pretty much covers what you want to know.
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For the non BE customers amongst us, pray tell what does it say?

Without reading it, can I assume it says it doesn't do it? It is possible to do bonding, but you will need an ISP that supports MLPPP such as Enta and some hardware router equipment eg PCI ADSL modems and an old pc running a Linux router software package, such as http://www.upstreaminter.net/bondedcd.shtml
 
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