Multiline MLPPP Asus Merlin willing to donate

[zoldy]

I have read for days on the topic ... I have alot of "special" circumstances where I require 2 DSL lines to be "bonded" together using MLPPP ... I already own and love the RT-N66U router running asusmerlin firmware. This is capable of DUAL Wan in load balance but does not bond the connections.

there are alot of rural folks out there that need the extra speed like myself. I work from home and have no other options then using 2 DSL connections or more.

Merlin any chance you would be interesting in developing support for this?

I hate to downgrade to a cheaper router that supports tomato/mlppp

If I run a second router it presents new challenges such as the built in ASUS DDNS will no longer function (I believe) because it will be behind the tomato router.

Any one else have experience with this type of setup?

 

[L&LD]

I had bonded DSL but it was not very stable, the modem though was supplied by the ISP and I got a single Ethernet connection to the net. When it worked.

 

[Txdk]

I have read for days on the topic ... I have alot of "special" circumstances where I require 2 DSL lines to be "bonded" together using MLPPP ... I already own and love the RT-N66U router running asusmerlin firmware. This is capable of DUAL Wan in load balance but does not bond the connections.

there are alot of rural folks out there that need the extra speed like myself. I work from home and have no other options then using 2 DSL connections or more.

Merlin any chance you would be interesting in developing support for this?

I hate to downgrade to a cheaper router that supports tomato/mlppp

If I run a second router it presents new challenges such as the built in ASUS DDNS will no longer function (I believe) because it will be behind the tomato router.

Any one else have experience with this type of setup?

it wont work.
Bonding 2 or more dsl connections require both ends to support bonding

 

[zoldy]

it will work according to the provider they support it. they recommend tomato-mlppp but it does not support my router.

 

[flinchlock]

Back in the late '90s I bonded a US Robotics 56K dialup modem AND a ISDN 128 kbit/s line running Windows NT 3.51 using RAS.

I have nothing to add to this post except to be my first post.

Mike

 

[zoldy]

Thanks... welcome... I know what I want to do is possible but not currently on my router.

If I install one of the linksys routers capable of running tomato-mlppp and then connect my existing Asus router I know it will work but I think it presents me some issues.

Port forwarding will have to be done twice to forward through both routers.

Asus - DDNS free service with there routers may not detect the proper external address since its WAN interface will be a private IP address?

Anyone else have experience with this?

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks... welcome... I know what I want to do is possible but not currently on my router.

If I install one of the linksys routers capable of running tomato-mlppp and then connect my existing Asus router I know it will work but I think it presents me some issues.

Not in the plans, due to the large amount of re-engineering involved, and also very limited usefulness.

You might want to see if Shibby might be open to the idea however. Since it's already implemented in a Tomato variant, it might be easier for him to merge that code back into his own code, provided that code does not break other features.

 

[zoldy]

Any ideas on the dual router setup? Do you think the Asus DDNS service will work properly behind another router. Also does double port forwarding work?

Forward External IP from router 1 to router 2

Then forward from router 1 to internal device?