Re: (PM) multiline load balancing

Josh Richards (jrichard@livingston.com)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:51:00 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Matt A. Jones wrote:

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> My ISP recently purchased a few Portmaster 3's with, I believe, a fairly
> up to data ComOS release.

3.7.2c3 is the latest.

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> I have been using SLiRP running from a shell account to 'bond' two
> analog modems for a couple of years, and now with the availability of
> the Portmasters, I am looking into my alternatives.
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> I have read that the Portmaster 3 with a recent ComOS release supports
> multilink PPP over ISDN AND analog devices (this is not true of early
> versions).

MP is supported on ISDN only in the 3.7.2c3. In 3.8 (which is currently
in beta) there is support for MP on analog also.

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> I have also read that the Portmaster supports 'multiline load balancing'.

EQL. Either PM to PM, or PM to Linux. I don't know what else supports
this. MP is more common then EQL.

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> I am using the ISDN Accelerator Pack (aka DUN 1.2) on a Windows 95 box.
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> Can anyone explain to me what my options are, and what would be required
> from my ISP to use either multiline load balancing or mPPP?
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> (ie. static IP, what kind of options they would need to set)..

You're ISP should not need to do anything, unless they have placed a
"Port-Limit" on their RADIUS server.

I believe the ISDN Accelerator Pack w/ Win95 *may* have direct support for
MP but I haven't purposely set up a Windows 95 box for a bit...

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> Thanks for any info.

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Josh Richards - <jrichard@livingston.com>
Beta Engineer
Lucent Technologies (Remote Access Business Unit)
(previously Livingston Enterprises, Inc.)

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