"Shotgun" or multilinking only works because the underlying layer2
support is there by means of PPP so that your layer 3 IP address can
send/rec twice as much data. With two independent physical connections
and IP addresses, the best you can do is a per connection or per
destination load balancing.
If both connections go directly into your PC, use iproute/iproute2 to
create either two default routes or two routes, where by 1 goes to half
of the internet and the other route goes to the other half... You won't
double your bandwidth on web surfing or single file downloads, but
torrents and other distributed content will be able to make use of both
connections.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:NfoR4OJXH3oJ:linuxcult.blogspot.com/2006/05/how-can-i-have-two-default-routes.html
-Blake
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Two Internet connections...
From: Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:47:06 PM
I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider. They
have now offered me free services, including cable Internet. I currently have a
DSL service through the telephone company and, for several reasons including the
fact that it is really unlimited service with no cap and it comes with newsgroup
access (neither of which the cable service has), I'm not really prepared to
give that up.
However, since I can get a free cable Internet service too I would like to be
able to put that to use.
Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet
service? Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services like
you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your transmission
speed?
