Multilink PPP - (DSL Bonding) [Now $100USD]

webstar

Well it only took 3 days and someone made a MLPPP version of the Tomato Firmware.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20484600-TomatoMLPPP-released-evade-throttle-or-bond-two-DSL-lines
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20452999-MLPPP-on-WRT54GTomato-progress-report-with-download

Any chance someone can do the same with pfsense?

eri--

Well it is pretty simple to do this with pfSense it has just to be exported to the interface, since mpd supports this.

The idea is to setup multiple ppp connections and then create a final bundle(in mpd talk) for them. This would even bring support for pptp/pppoe/ppp on interfaces other than WAN as an aside.

I can take a look at this after i finish the other bounty if nobody wants to dig in before.

webstar

Thanks for looking into it.

tec

I would put another 25 in this bountey IF it works with PPPOE.

It would be great if others would also put a smal amount in, this feature would really rock :)
Cheers

bitcore

I am really fascinated with this. I'm talking to our local telco's president to see if they support this. If so, and their fiber roll out to our house is over a few months, and they'd rather do MLPP instead of a couple bonded T1's - I'll post 50$

webstar

if I recall when someone asked Teksavvy if they do/could support it. About 6 hours later they had it activated.

grayfox

I will add $10 to the bounty, This feature would be useful.

Edward_k

I'll add $25 USD to bounty if MLPPP should still work even if you have 1 DSL line, yes?

webstar

@Edward_k:

I'll add $25 USD to bounty if MLPPP should still work even if you have 1 DSL line, yes?

It does with tomato. And it does bypass the DPI throttling.

webstar

So what would you all need to help dev. this.

I could put Pfsense in Vmware on a XP box that can be vnc'd into. This is what I provided to the Tomato MLPPP devs.

ohmer

It's not complete and bug-free, but it's a good start. Only a few hours were required ;)

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20504733-MLPPP-on-pfSense

eri--

This link is a more complete setup.

Though mpd5 has templates which should simplify some things on the configuration side.
But that all to doing it.

I think that you better enable tcpmssfix rather than setting mss maxsize option.

If you are interested on getting this into pfSense when you have a diff just report in here.

ohmer

The link is dead.

I tried to remove my "set mss" directives and add one "set iface enable tcpmssfix", but this didn't change anything.

eri--

It works for me but in any case try this.

webstar

@ermal:

It works for me but in any case try this.

That link is dead too. DSLR uses dynamic links so you can't just link to them.

Edward_k

Shamelessly mirrored on my site at (v1.3)
http://static.edwardk.info/mlppp%20guide.pdf
from: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r20456553-MLPPP-Guide-on-Linux

jonnytabpni

This feature would make pfsense the ultimate firewall!!

There is another firewall called Boot CD or something that used to be free but then the guy started to take advantage of the fact that his prduct was the only one to allow MLPPP.

My Business will give $30 to the person that codes this!!

Daboom

Ok here's the updated scoop.
As you can see if you read that thread we are having severe latency issues. at one time it got better for me and wasn't so bad but it would come back now and then. SO i was wondering if anyone perhaps had any hints as to why this is happening. keep in mind this is in single dsl mlppp mode. We have yet to finalize testing using two modems and seeing how this responds etc. Couple other bugs I have noticed is it won't get the ISP dns entries we had to put them in ourselves and tell pfsense not to override with a wan dns entry. I am ruling out hardware as the issue for the latency as both machines tested with the same problem have way diff specs.

jonnytabpni

Please note that I am VERY ignorrant to coding anything so I am not qualified to make any sort of suggestions in this area.

However would taking a look at:

http://www.upstreaminter.net/bondedcd.shtml

and having a look at the settings there help?

Also, sangoma has some interesting tips on:

http://wiki.sangoma.com/wanpipe-linux-wan#mpppdOverTTY

I don't know if this helps you at all

ohmer

@Daboom:

Ok here's the updated scoop.
As you can see if you read that thread we are having severe latency issues. at one time it got better for me and wasn't so bad but it would come back now and then. SO i was wondering if anyone perhaps had any hints as to why this is happening. keep in mind this is in single dsl mlppp mode. We have yet to finalize testing using two modems and seeing how this responds etc. Couple other bugs I have noticed is it won't get the ISP dns entries we had to put them in ourselves and tell pfsense not to override with a wan dns entry. I am ruling out hardware as the issue for the latency as both machines tested with the same problem have way diff specs.

I fixed the DNS issue. Add this to your mpd.conf :


  set ipcp enable req-pri-dns
  set ipcp enable req-sec-dns
  set iface up-script /usr/local/sbin/ppp-linkup

So, the only issue is latency.