[u-u] Someone used to have a redundant ISP service... Who?

Hugh Gamble hugh at phaedrav.com
Sun May 4 20:11:56 EDT 2025


PPPoE can use 2.
The one I remember from David combined them.

>
> --- Original message ---
> Subject: Re: [u-u] Someone used to have a redundant ISP service... 
> Who?
> From: Alan J Rosenthal <flaps at 56789.ca>
> To: David Collier-Brown <davecb.42 at gmail.com>
> Cc: UU <u-u at unixunanimous.org>
> Date: Sunday, 04/05/2025 8:01 PM
>
>>
>> It sent the exact same stream of data down both Rogers and Bell lines.
>> If a packet got dropped, it was replaced by the copy from the other 
>> vendor.
>>
>> This handled censorship, bad cables and outages.
>
> But unless I'm missing something, the return packets would only come
> back through one of them, depending on what route you advertise.
> So, UDP broadcast only?
>
> regards,
> ajr
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