Dennis wrote:
>
> At 09:01 AM 10/12/2000, David Scheidt wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote:
> >
> >:We will have the feature in our bandwidth manager product for FreeBSD
> >:shortly, including fallover. Its really load balancing; bonding is a bad
> >:term (no doubt coined by the linux camp).
> >:
> >
> >It's telco usage from before there was a linux (and probably before
> >there was a Linus), so it's rather unlikely that they're responsible for
> >it.
>
> No, telcos used the term "bonding" for ISDN, which actually IS a physical
> bonding technique. Its all the half-wits that think that load balancing is
> the same thing that now associate virtual techniques to something very
> different.
The term was used to describe any channel aggregation when I worked for
GTE, before Linus went to college, and before ISDN was really known in
the USA. The Spacenet boys even used it to describe mutiplying bandwidth
on satellite channels.
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