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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi,<br>
<br>
I need a help on Linux routing, if you have some sparse time. I'm based
in Madagascar and my English is not good; so please forgive me.<br>
<br>
<b>What I want to come-up with:<br>
<br>
</b>My main goal is to download using two modems at the same time, and
combining their bandwidth, but I have failed miserably. The reason is
this: our country is still using poor slow internets, and I have seen
on the Internet the various ways of combining several Internet
connections into one single connection, to get a higher bandwidth.<br>
<br>
<b>What I have:</b><br>
<br>
I have 2 modem, 2 accounts on the 1 same ISP.<br>
I have tried using openSUSE 10.2 and Gentoo 2007.0, but none of them
satisfied my deep need.<br>
<br>
<b>What I have tried already:</b><br>
<br>
I have been spending days on the </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Routing guide that you provided on
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lartc.org/howto/">http://lartc.org/howto/</a>,
but I have failed miserably to make it work,
and my Internet
connection is all broken when I try it.<br>
I'm not a Network expert, and I'm so confused by what all the
addresses, interfaces, ... that need to be configured.<br>
<br>
Multilinking doesn't work either, and so, routing is the last resort.<br>
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<b>The problems that I'm facing:</b><br>
<br>
My connection is broken whenever I tried using the multilinking routing
techniques that you showed on the site. And I thus have to reboot
everytime it gets broken.<br>
<br>
<br>
Here is what my ip shows me, as you instructed in the guide:<br>
<br>
<u>Using 1 modem only:<br>
</u><br>
</font><tt># ip route show<br>
2.2.2.2 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 62.56.163.150 <br>
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link <br>
default via 2.2.2.2 dev ppp0<br>
<br>
# ip link show<br>
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue <br>
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00<br>
18: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast qlen 3<br>
link/ppp</tt><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
<br>
<u>Using both modem:</u><br>
<br>
</font><tt># ip route show<br>
2.2.2.2 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 62.56.163.150 <br>
2.2.2.2 dev ppp1 proto kernel scope link src 62.56.163.135 <br>
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link <br>
default via 2.2.2.2 dev ppp0<br>
<br>
# ip link show<br>
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue <br>
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00<br>
18: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast qlen 3<br>
link/ppp <br>
19: ppp1: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast qlen 3<br>
link/ppp</tt><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
<br>
I'm just asking you to help me, of course, if you have time. I'm
desperate to have this thing working, and I can issue any commands that
you ask into my system, if you need to.<br>
<br>
Thanks a lot.<br>
<br>
Zedeck.<br>
<br>
<br>
PS: Current system is Gentoo 2007.0.<br>
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