On 28 March 2014 23:55, Julien Goodwin <luv-lists@studio442.com.au> wrote:
On 28/03/14 14:51, Toby Corkindale wrote:
Hey all, Does anyone have real-world experience of using linux's interface bonding on public networks? (In the bandwidth-aggregation mode, not the redundancy mode)
I was wondering how I could make the following setup work: * Rent a VPS in Melbourne with four IP addresses * Get four (or just two) ADSL connections wired up to home * Have your VPS connect four VPN connections from itself back to each of your home IPs. * Bond all four interfaces together * Create a fifth VPN connection, this time going over the bonded-virtual-interface between VPS and home, and then configure your home server to use that link as the default route? Two options:
1. Some ISPs (IIRC 'node and Exetel both offered this at one point) offered MLPPP for a fairly nominal price over two ADSL lines
I forgot to mention earlier -- but both Exetel and iiNet (nee Internode) stopped offering bonded DSL in 2014. It sounds like they were having a lot of trouble setting it up or supporting it. (According to whirlpool, the single option of hardware they were using at the client end was both expensive and awfully crap) An ISP called IIG seems to still be offering bonded DSL, so I've put in an enquiry with them. No prices were listed. Fusion Broadband do a thing where you use their appliance at the client end, and it bonds arbitrary WAN connections, apparently with quite good latency. It's moderately pricy at $95 per WAN connection you want to bond -- on top of the cost of getting the WAN connection -- but does sound like it's a successful solution for some. I'm leaning towards trying the Linux DIY approach to link aggregation.. if it works, great, otherwise even just using the round-robin load-balancing mode would present speed-ups for most things. (web pages, torrents, apt, but not linux ISOs, steam downloads or nvidia drivers*) -Toby * seriously WHY ARE THEY SO HUGE? Quarter of a gigabyte for windows display drivers? What's in them??