Re: (PM) load balancing

Jim Lohiser (jdl@modex.com)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 20:50:08 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Tim Cassedy-Blum wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a PM2e and my ISP has some PM3s. I have 4 modems that need to dial
> the ISP using PPP. I need to use all 4 modems for bandwidth. Someone told
> me that the way you use 4 modems for bandwidth is called "load balancing"
> and that they will only need 1 IP total. Is this the case? If that's
> not the best way to do it, what is? They can get 4 static IPs if that's
> what it takes.

To use only one IP address with 4 modems you would have to be able to do
Multilink PPP (MP). The PM2e cannot and will not do MP on analog modems
due to hardware constraints.

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