Topic: Dial up Question

[Jose Paez]

Hi Everybody,

Does any of you knows how to connect two modems to two different telephone lines to e-smith server to gain bandwidth? (i'm someknid of a linux newbie : ) )

Any help is very wellcome.

Thanks in advance

jos

[Troy Starkey]

Yes, I too would like some information on Multi-Linking. Our new ISP supports 2 modem dialups in this manner, and want to utilize the extra (little bit of) speed.  I am using e-smith 4.1.2

Thanks

Troy

[Rangi Biddle]

Ok guys here's a suggestion.

I have successfully had what you would call Shotgun or Multilink running on a Windows 98 machine.  The multilink technology was originally designed for the Linux system.

The link below has some information on Multilink PPP if you don't find the links below helpful then do a search on google or whatever your favourite search engine is for - Dual Modem Multilink Shotgun

This should bring back a list of possible websites with solutions on how to setup what you want.  According to the first link that I am providing below the 2.4 kernel supports mppd for multilink for a real easy solution but if your like me you'll try to tackle the problem yourselves and see if you can get it working.  I will attempt to perform this myself even though I have no need to as I am using a radio link at home but hopefully I can write a more informative explaination on how to do it.  Anyway before I ramble on too much here are a couple links for you.  The second is the better solution!!

http://www.znet.com/dualmodem.html
http://linux-mp.terz.de/

Hope this helps.

[Jose Paez]

Hi Rangi,

Thanks for your interest in helping us, and thanks again for all the information you already gave, i think it will be helpfull with some researching as i'm new to linux and windows it's slower than e-smith at least sharing internet connection.

Thanks

Jos