On 11/17/11 19:43, Stuart Henderson wrote:
wow, people really still use multilink? i remember it being a fair hassle on the lns side back when we did it with dialup... over here (UK) the few people doing this sort of thing use per-packet IP load-balancing these days.
Over here (Canada; Ontario specifically), where Russell and I are both located, the copper is owned by Bell Canada, a private company. They resell their bandwidth to independent ISPs, but *everyone* is stuck with the throttling that Bell applies during certain hours of the day.
You mentioned dialup. Bell's throttle drops P2P traffic to the speed of a 56k modem, and to 28.8k during the most restrictive hours.
I can't speak to Russell's reasons for using MLPPP, but myself and many others that use independent ISPs use MLPPP to evade the throttle. I don't know the technical details behind how it works, but it's currently the only way to get around Bell's throttle. Most people use the "Tomato" firmware on their modems, but OpenBSD does it perfectly for me. :)
- Scott
