On 28 March 2014 17:46, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:51:21 Toby Corkindale wrote:
Does anyone have real-world experience of using linux's interface bonding on public networks? (In the bandwidth-aggregation mode, not the redundancy mode)
http://simonmott.co.uk/vpn-bonding
The above blog post describes how to do this, it's apparently worked for someone but I wouldn't expect it to work easily or want to rely on it.
That's roughly what I was theorising.. Good to see someone else has tried it and had it work -- although yeah, it looks and sounds rather convoluted. I found that a company called Fusion sells boxes that sound like they do essentially that -- you plug arbitrary ADSL/4G/whatever WAN connections into it, and it aggregates them all off to a box somewhere in their data centre. Costs $145/month to bond two lines, or arbitrary numbers of lines for $95/month. The router was quite expensive too.
http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/08/14/ethernet-bonding-and-a-xen-bridge/
I'd rather spend my time trying to get the Liberal party voted out than go to such extremes in search of better performance.
sigh. yeah, but it'll be 2020 by the time we get rid of them, and in the meantime I'd really, really like to have vaguely-usable internet access. Although since Optus or Telstra apparently accidentally unplugged my port on the DSLAM last week and I was without any internet access at all for a while, I suddenly realised that 3-4 mbit is a lot better than none at all!