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kernel_panic writes "Okay, I've been reading up on combining two or more SDSL connections together to give you one big fat pipe, but I haven't seen any references to doing this w/ ADSL. This place even manufactures a nifty little hardware device (ePipe) that combines two WAN ports for the aggregate sum. I've seen the Netopia 7000 Series routers support this capability as well, w/ an add-on card, but all of these places only mention accomplishing this w/ SDSL accounts. I've seen a lot of info on bandwidth load balancing, but I want bandwidth aggregation (inverse multiplexing). Has anyone had any experience doing this kind of thing w/ your Linux/BSD gateway boxen?"

Louis Bertrand noted that in another win for free software, OpenBSD can now be found in the guts of the Stallion ePipe, a dial-up network gateway, a little like the IBM InterJet we mentioned a few days ago. Playing to OpenBSD's strengths, the core processor is a Motorola ColdFire 5307 VL-RISC chip, and the encryption is provided by OpenBSD's built-in encryption code. They've even written a cooperative press release about it, complete with OpenBSD's very cool blowfish.

Louis Bertrand noted that in another win for free software, OpenBSD can now be found in the guts of the Stallion ePipe, a dial-up network gateway, a little like the IBM InterJet we mentioned a few days ago. Playing to OpenBSD's strengths, the core processor is a Motorola ColdFire 5307 VL-RISC chip, and the encryption is provided by OpenBSD's built-in encryption code. They've even written a cooperative press release about it, complete with OpenBSD's very cool blowfish.