Dual cable hookup

[Duston, Hal]

Dale,

Not sure what you mean here.

If you mean combining the bandwidth to appear as a single 
connection which people used to do with modems, (i.e. 
have two phone lines dialed in and they appear as one 
larger pipe) they both would have to be connected to 
the same upstream provider.  I don't think either a 
cable or a dsl provider would be able to do this.

If you were to get both cable and dsl providers to 
deliver (which is certainly feasible), you would be 
a multi-homed machine.  While this is very possible 
to do, it would be rather difficult to setup.  Your 
machine would have to decide which connection to 
send outgoing packet on, and you would have to make 
sure that you did not advertise your routes to one 
connection on the other.  If this happened, your 
machine would become router and packets could come 
in on one connection and go out the other on their 
way to somewhere else.  You would still not 
be able to effectively combine the bandwidth into 
a single connection.  About the only thing you could 
do is have your machine appear on the internet as 
two different machines and provide different services 
on each.

Hal Duston
hald at sound.net
If Al Gore invented the internet, why is it named after George W. Bush?

Dale Beams [mailto:dbeams at hotmail.com] wrote:
> 
> What is involved in hooking up two cable lines to a computer 
> so that the computer uses both lines for the full bandwidth
> 
> Or ... cable & DSL ...
> 
> i.e. RR & FreeDSL for webhosting ...