[plug] OT - Cisco advice

[Kirk Turner]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:19, Patrick Tehvand wrote:

> We lodged complaint with TIO and telstra is comming out to meet with us
> in about a month. Interim solution 2 x 56k analogue connections. I would
> like to aggregate that.
> 
> Solution we have come up with is purchase 1751 router (we can get one
> real cheep) with WIC2T (2 x serial) and plug our two modems into there.
> some cisco wizardry and we have bonded 2 x 56k connection with the added
> bonus of just requiring a adsl wic when we finally get it.
> 
I'm no expert on routers so excuse my ignorance :) 

What would the advantages of using a router to do this rather than
setting up bonded multilink ppp through linux? Is it just a case of
hardware vs software level?

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