[TriLUG] RAID notion applied to networking

[David Both via TriLUG]

What you want is network bonding.

https://linuxhint.com/linux_network_bonding/


On 5/24/20 2:38 PM, John Franklin via TriLUG wrote:
> On May 23, 2020, at 13:25, Pete Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> Would it be possible (for a moderately capable/experienced person) to combine two MyFi sources with DSL and create a more reliable, possibly higher performance link to a single end point such as a Hangouts/Jitsi/Zoom/MS Teams or something like that? My wife is an instructor over the Internet and here in the bushes of Wake county "pitiful" would be a complimentary way of describing our DSL (6M bits down, .7 up). But I have a cell booster and we can get decent signals in the house and each phone can create a hotspot. Is there a son of original DD-WRT or OpenWrt that could arrange for three clients to appear to a fourth client as if it could treat the three as alternate routes from some source? What about on the far end? Would that need something semi-magic? That might be of use to me with clients who might be in a position to have a magic box on their end that could connect with the three paths on this one.
> Maybe.  It would work if it were set it up as a multipath VPN tunnel to something at $FAVORITE_VPS_VENDOR.  You could get the combined bandwidth of the hotspot and DSL, but I tend to doubt it would work well with VoIP or videoconferencing or gaming.  The roundtrip time would be vastly different depending on the path of each packet, and that would show up on the endpoints as bonkers jitter.
>
> jf

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