Category:Bonding

AAISP have been providing bonded ADSL services for many years... There are various things to consider and understand...

Overview

AAISP support per-packet bonding - this is at the IP level, and simply means that packets entering or leaving your site use the ADSL lines on a roundrobin basis (or based on the speed of the lines). That way, a single TCP/IP session is transmitted over multiple lines. There is also details on the AAISP KB page: [1]

Advantages

More bandwidth, as well as resilience (having more that one line increases the probability of staying online in the event of a fault)

Limitations

We do recommend the FireBrick 105 product for bonding, fallback, and firewalling - as of Oct 2010, this is nearing the end of it's life, and the throughput peaks at around 10-10Mb/s - so with today's faster lines, it's limit may be easily reached. -New products are due very soon to replace the 105.

Download Bonding

From the Internet to you. AAISP use FireBrick FB6000 routers to manage ADSL connections. This manages the bonding of traffic from AAISP to your location. IP blocks (configured on Clueless) can be routed to multiple lines on your login. for fallback, the FB6000 will stop routing IPs down a line that is off line, and from the Control Pages you can control which lines are used. Speed wise, the FB6000 will route based on the speed of the line - so if you have a 10M line and a 5M line, then the traffic will be weighted correctly (ie 1/3 on the 5M line, and 2/3 on the 10M line.)

Upload Bonding

Examples

Mixing BT and BE lines