Also sprach Steve Cobb
OK guys, I have a little more information now than I did. We are trying to use a virtual ISP for some of our pops but we want to offer 128k ISDN. I am told by the virtual ISP that they only offer 64K ISDN. They are apparently using Lucent Portmaster access servers which I don't have access to. I know this is a USR list but I was hoping someone had an idea. Is there an ISDN router out there that will take 2 separate accounts, i.e. two different usernames with two different 64K channels, and bind them to each other to make a single 128k channel?
Not well...but it can be kinda done. It wouldn't work as a true balancing of the data across the lines like MP does it. MP can fragment a packet so that it travels over both lines simultaneously thus truly making the most efficient use of the lines...with seperate accounts you won't be able to do that, but there is software that will do things like initiate half of your network requests (ftp, http, smtp, whatever) over one of the lines and the other half over the other line. This results in some semblance of load balancing the lines, but is rather kludgy. Another thing you might consider though...and you might consider this kinda kludgy as well, not sure. If you have control of the RADIUS entries for these users, what you might be able to do is set up the RADIUS entries so that the user is not a PPP user, but is actually a tunnel user. Set it up so that whenever the account dials in, its tunneled to a system that you have direct control over (I'm assuming the PM's will do tunneling), and then you can run MP over the tunnels...caveat here is that I've never actually tried this. :) The HiPer Arcs will serve as tunnel terminators (LNS or PNS for l2tp and pptp respectively), so you can do this with just a HiPer Arc of your own to work with. You could even conceivably put this functionality on a HiPer Arc that is taking calls directly, though I'd want to be careful of how much load you put on it. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.