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bobs_uncle

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Hi,

I currently have an ADSL setup with telkom, and when I got the setup I was given the Telkom ADSL router. now the router is currently running in router mode and handles all the dial-ups as well as NAT.

I've heard rumours that you can set the router into bridge mode and then dial-up mutliple times. Basically having more than 1 concurrent connection at a time over the adsl line.

Is this possible?
Are there limitations?
And any other information will be great.
 
I think you need to specify which "Telkom ADSL router", and ask people with that specific router for tips...;)
 
ok lets do it the easy way, Windows.

In windows you can install raspppoe, do a search on google for "raspppoe download" install that under your network card and it will be added as another interface.

Now you need to find the option on your router called bridge or bridge-mode. When you set it to bridge, you will be able to enter raspppoe in runbox and test if you can get a dslam resolved.

If you get the dslam resolved, then simply click "create network connection" and enter ur username/password to connect directly from your windows pc.

Then have a cup of coffee with 2 biscuits.

Enjoy.
 
Ok ADSL Router can be setup in bridge mode.

Its the Telkom ADSL Router POTS. Theres nothing else written on it.

My question is, can you create multiple connections through the router (running as a bridge). For example, I have 4 ADSL accounts, that I want to dial-up with simultaneously. Is this possible? As I want to do load balancing over the 4 connections, and yes, my dial-up box has 4 network cards in it.
 
Sheesh - 4 ADSL accounts. Suppose you've got your reasons for doing that.

I used to run 2 computers on one Teklom account, each computer dialing up by itself when required. Nowdays I run a server that looks after the connection and proxy and firewall for the 2 computers - this I found to be much better cos of the proxy server.

I'm using the old Alcatel POTS router that cost 3200 bucks (or something rediculous) - stuupid me, but it's not like i need to buy another so ...

The load balancing thing you're trying to do can only happen on the router, and I did see something in the configuration about that, but it was greek with japanese subtitles, and I may be completely mistaken.

Have you used/ do you know how to get into the HTML configuration utility for the router?
 
Yes, you can dialup multiple times in Bridged PPPOE mode. Load balancing from Windows??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..good one :D
 
nonrocker, did I mention windows?

No the reason for the 4 accounts is to slip traffic (load balance) over the first 3 accounts, hence giving a theritical 1536Kbit link... and then use the remain 512kbit link as a local providing. Using iproute2, I then setup a local route table with all the local networks in SA and then route any traffic to those networks via the capped 512kbit link.

System I am using is RedHat Linux 8.0 with kernel 2.4.29-owl1 with QoS support.
 
Stoke, its already packaged...

My next plan is to offer uncapped ADSL as I have access to a 1mbit line thats not utilized much at all... about 30% max at peak times. So I was looking at NukeCap and I see they are offering uncapped 30:1 access on a 512kbit link... for R100 a month...

I recon I can offer a 30:1 uncapped service using VPN access over a 700kbit line (since 30% of 1024kbit is 307kbit)... which should give a client a minimum of 3kb/s... otherwise I could look at uping it to 15:1 ratio lines, which is a minimum of 6kb/s per client.

Say for about R100 or R150 a month... anyone interested?

The 1mb line is supplied by UUNET, so its not like SAIX's 30/60 ratio lines.
 
Yes, i'm interested. More details required though.
1. The 1mbit line is running on who'se network? Specifically, what are the landing points on this network. I require landing points in the UK, USA, Mid-Europe and AUSTRALIA, or put another way, decent throughtput with minimum lag (sub 350ms) at at least some of these points, during office hours.
2. Where are you located, or, how much lag will be added to get into your VPN? Can I tracert it now and take a look?
3. Is your VPN using compression, and can I VPN inside your VPN without buggering up your VPN's compression?
4. Guarantee's?

Thats the questions for Work.
Now, my requirement:
I need to be able to play online games in USA, UK, GERMANY. My throughput requirement is much less than 3KBytes/s, more like .5KBytes per second, but latency below 300ms (including my hop to your pvn via teklom 512) would be absolutely awesome.

Over to you.
 
stoke,

Geez man, whats with the questions. I'll try to answer them all...

1. the 1mbit line runs on my office here in Nelspruit. The landing points, well not quite sure what you mean by that, but the throughput is guaranteed @ 42kbps, burstable to 640kbps. Ration is 15:1. As for the hops, well theres the VPN gateway hop, which then gets masqueraded (on the same box) and then second hop is onto the cisco router, and then from there, onto the internet. so jsut an extra 2 hops. The VPN gateway server runs on Telkom ADSL aswell, so its only 1 hop from your pc to our server. Maybe 2 (network jumps?).
2. There shouldn't be any lag. I will estimate max is about 180ms... give or take. I haven't run tests yet.
3. VPN uses LZO compression. and yes you can VPN through the VPN connection.
4. Guaranteed speed.... non-guaranteed service. Due to the ADSL infrastructure, I cannot gurarantee always-on access. But the speed is guaranteed.

As for your personal use, well that is still possible, however should you need more, well we can look at prioritizing your traffic....
 
Just wondering, why have a 1mbit line when u never use more than 30% bandwidth?

Thats very odd
 
Expansion purposes.... for those "just incase" situations. Yeah it is odd, but hey, I ain't complaining, I'm not paying the bills :)
 
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