Toby Corkindale <toby(a)dryft.net> writes: I've done aggregation bonding before and it was sucky - weird heisenbugs IIRC. Now I just buy a 10G NIC. If that can even work, it's pretty awful. Why do you want this? Can you move the office closer instead? ;-)

On 28/03/14 14:51, Toby Corkindale wrote: 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 2. Just use Linux's load balancing to choose between several normal ADSL lines You don't need the additional IPs on the VPS for your example, and again could simply ECMP between them, trying to bond one TCP session across multiple links is a really bad idea.

On 28 March 2014 17:46, Russell Coker <russell(a)coker.com.au> wrote: 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. 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!

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Jason White <jason(a)jasonjgw.net> wrote: It varies. At my old house, it was very good for downloads (80Mb/s down, ~ 2Mb/s up). Moved less than a km away, and now it's 20Mb/s down, 1.2Mb/s up. Not any more. I use their provided modem, plugged into a dd-wrt rebranded DIR-632. Absolutely stable and no problems at all. Completely OS agnostic. / Brett

100/3mbit speeds for me (outer eastern Melbourne suburbs), outside of one multi-day outage due to something up the street blowing up, no problems. OS agnostic; they provide a Cable modem that'll do DHCP/NAT/etc. R

Jason White <jason(a)jasonjgw.net> writes: You are remembering "heartbeat". There was a perl script that faked it on Linux ca. 2005, but Telstra stopped needing it a few years later. Can't find a Wikipedia reference, but http://ozcableguy.com/heartbeat.asp Re "contention?" downthread, my vague recollection is that the bandwidth is shared by everyone on the street, so it's fast as long as everyone else on the street has DSL. Cf. DSL runs over a dedicated copper pair between you and the exchange.

Hi, Just following up on my rather old post -- but it took about three months to go from wanting it to getting everything provisioned. I'm running two ADSL lines with Linux doing interface bonding on the (bridged) PPPoE ADSL; the ISP is doing some kind of similar bonding at their end, although I suspect on Cisco hardware, not Linux. Performance seems decent -- prior to this I was getting around 4.5 to 5 mbit down, 0.6mbit up via Exetel on Optus hardware. With the two new lines (Telstra) I'm getting total 9.5 mbit down and 1.6 mbit up via IIG on Annex M AAPT hardware. (Performance tested with the not-super-accurate-but-standard speedtest.net) (Refreshing the landlines helped -- definitely gained 500-1000 kbit per line prior to bonding, perhaps just due to the cables being re-crimped at both ends.. who knows) Whether it actually turns out to be reliable in the long run, I'll see... I do get HA in effect, as if one line goes down, all traffic goes over the other after a fraction of a second delay. The actual bonding stuff in Linux (Ubuntu LTS) was a bit fiddly to configure -- the /etc/network/interfaces.d stanzas for bonding are really only designed to work with ethernet ports or similar, that are up instantly. To make it work automatically with pppd, I needed to define the bond0 interface as having zero slaves, and then add a script to /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ which calls ifenslave -f bond0 $PPP_INTERFACE (if the IP address matches one of those from my ISP) Toby On 28 March 2014 14:51, Toby Corkindale <toby(a)dryft.net> wrote: -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world