I NEED SUGGESTIONS ON HOW WORKABLE IT IS TO AGGREGATE MULTIPLE WAN LINKS FROM SAME ISP. WHAT I AM TRYING TO ACHIEVE HERE IS'T THE NORMAL LOAD BALANCING/FAIL-OVER OF TWO LINKS, IT GOES BEYOND THE FAIL-OVER/LOAD BALANCING LEVEL TO AGGREGATING THE TWO WAN LINKS INTO A SINGLE LINK WHOSE TOTAL BANDWIDTH IS THE SUM ALL LINK BANDWIDTH AVAILABLE? I HAVE A CAPABLE CISCO ROUTER FOR THE TASK AHEAD BUT NEED TO KNOW HOW WORKABLE IT IS? I WANT ONE IP ADDRESS FOR BOTH LINKS.

Yes, you can do that. You need to implement a multiplexing technique like TDM on both links. Search google, some guys in the states have implemented something close to this on wifi to achieve higher speed.

Sibrah: I NEED SUGGESTIONS ON HOW WORKABLE IT IS TO AGGREGATE MULTIPLE WAN LINKS FROM SAME ISP. WHAT I AM TRYING TO ACHIEVE HERE IS'T THE NORMAL LOAD BALANCING/FAIL-OVER OF TWO LINKS, IT GOES BEYOND THE FAIL-OVER/LOAD BALANCING LEVEL TO AGGREGATING THE TWO WAN LINKS INTO A SINGLE LINK WHOSE TOTAL BANDWIDTH IS THE SUM ALL LINK BANDWIDTH AVAILABLE? I HAVE A CAPABLE CISCO ROUTER FOR THE TASK AHEAD BUT NEED TO KNOW HOW WORKABLE IT IS? I WANT ONE IP ADDRESS FOR BOTH LINKS.

Suggestions:

- Layer 3 Ether Channel...i doubt if it works on WAN links

- Find out about a device called Link Load Balancer

- Using policy based routing on the links would mean using both links or a default route across both links would utilize both links too instead of combining them.

Thanks.I will make out time to go check your ideas. Again Thanks alot.

Naija,

There are link aggregators made by so many companies. Instead of using policy based routing which may be complex and may never work,
why not buy a link aggregator made by one of the experts in Link aggregating. If I may ask,why are you aggregating link from the same company?

Brainstorm
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seannopo: Yes, you can do that. You need to implement a multiplexing technique like TDM on both links. Search google, some guys in the states have implemented something close to this on wifi to achieve higher speed.

What u talked about - TDM Multiplexing, is a channel access method. What i need is a channell aggregation method at the Layer2 and Layer3 of computer networking. Thanks for the effort.

wirelessmaster: Naija,

There are link aggregators made by so many companies. Instead of using policy based routing which may be complex and may never work,
why not buy a link aggregator made by one of the experts in Link aggregating. If I may ask,why are you aggregating link from the same company?

Brainstorm
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I have had a deep thought over the whole thing and it have finally concluded it either impossible or just too difficult to achieve for the purpose i planned to use it on.

Link aggregation is limited to layer 2 and layer 3 network protocol suite i.e it would work accross wirless links, ethernet frames in LANS, ppp multiple links .Beyond, this level all you could get is failover/loadbalancing implementation.

^^Really?

Further research has confirmed layer 3 aggregation over third party network is best achieved with a load balancing and fail-over technology. Thanks for all contribution.