Sounds like the best solution would be MLPPP. You could do it with a
Unix box or a Cisco 1720 with 2 ADSL WIC's. Your LNS's
Virtual-Template will need to support ppp multilink and you may also
need to enable VPDN multihop depending on your config.
At 11:37 PM -0500 3/19/01, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
>I have a customer that wants to "bond" two ADSL connections to increase
>his bandwidth. He is to far from the CO to get the high-high speed ADSL.
>
>This is the setup:
>
>Customer runs PPPoE software, ADSL modem is connected through the ethernet
>NIC. This gets encapsulated as a L2TP tunnel and shows up on my cisco
>router, here the tunnel is deencapsulated, then the PPP is authenticated
>(I'm using RADIUS).
>
>So, would it be possible to put a cisco 1605 at the customer site, have
>one ethernet connect to his internal network. The other ethernet port
>connected to a hub and have two (or more) ADSL modems connect to this hub.
>Setup the 1605 to create two PPPoE sessions and have two default routes.
>
>On my router assign the same network to the two connections.
>
>
>I can see some problems, one is how would the 1605 know which ADSL modem
>to talk to, after all the modems are just bridges. Would this be solved by
>having a separate ethernet port per modem?
>
>Are there any other ways for bonding ADSL connections?
>
>K
-- Scott A Silzer
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