multiple cable modems

[klax33]

In my continuing quest for more power, I was wondering if it was possible to get multiple calbe modems and make them act as one big fat connection? I know you can do this with other carrier grade type of lines, but they are way out of my price range. $40/month per line isn't that much and I might actually see that 1.5Mbps promised to me. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

[rain]

The EQL driver (which is part of the kernel for quite a while now) claims to do this.

Im also quite interested in doing the same thing but with 4 X 1mb/s DSL connections.

I believe the terminology is Multipath Routing.

To tell the truth I'd given up on the idea of using Linux to do this since I found out that BSD has this option enabled by default if it finds two network interfaces with the same destination.

This search will give you some info on EQL: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+eql

as well as checking out:
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/Documentation/networking/eql.txt
and:
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/net/eql.c
on your box.

If you're going to seriously attempt to do this, <a href="mailto:lisa@xs.mw">email me</a> & we can keep some sort of joint log of our efforts to this end http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

CIao