[h2odragon]

Obligatory "we did that back in the day with Multilink PPP" ... which sucked ROCKS, had no real standards, and only actually worked with personally applied patches and black magic in my experience.

Really glad to see this project advancing.

[crest]

I only got multilink PPP working on FreeBSD with mpd5 between two systems. A laptop with four USB<->RS232 adapters and the other an outdated piece of crap with a quad port RS232 card (running at 1Mbaud). It worked at close to the theoretical throughput and allowed the old Pentium 3 to join a conference wifi network that disabled legacy 802.11b to preserve airtime.

[h2odragon]

I had a patchset to make linux 2.0 / 2.2 talk PPP to several ports on livingston gear or itself. I got reports that it worked in some other situations; and there was an interesting bug report from an early version of Android that looked a lot like one of the failure modes i saw and never fixed in that code.

Best I ever did with that code was a bank of 8 ISDN modems to a PM3 that we did as a test at the ISP's office just to see how far it could stretch. 230kbps serial ports on an ISA bus.

[kjs3]

Yeah...we never had success with the OSS solutions here. We used a lot of Tiara Networks (later bought by Nortel) boxes for this sort of thing. Worked great, but expensive, closed source, yada-yada. If there were only a couple of parallel paths, routers worked reliably if not always optimally or cheaply; sticking to one vendors multilink PPP was generally reliable, and worst case there is OSPF as one mysteriously downvoted commenter upstream noted.