[CentOS] Re: Two Internet connections...

[Scott Silva]

on 3-26-2008 12:27 PM Frank Cox spake the following:
> I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider.  They
> have now offered me free services, including cable Internet.  I currently have a
> DSL service through the telephone company and, for several reasons including the
> fact that it is really unlimited service with no cap and it comes with newsgroup
> access (neither of which the cable service has), I'm not really prepared to
> give that up.
> 
> However, since I can get a free cable Internet service too I would like to be
> able to put that to use.
> 
> Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet
> service?  Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services like
> you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your transmission
> speed?
> 
> 
Bonding will only work if the connections terminate at the same place on BOTH 
ends. Since you are basically using 2 ISP's, that won't work.
If you can find a load balancing router someplace, it can send different 
connections out different ports and keep track of what goes where. But the 
cost won't be cheap, and I don't know of any consumer level routers that do 
this. You might be able to get it working with Vyatta and a dedicated computer 
with multiple ethernet ports.

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