Possibly doable - but your theory about packets being sized differently
is flawed in a number of subtle ways...

If you're having specific issues with gaming, SSH, certain websites vs
downloading, then try this...

Setup both routers on the same subnet, both connected to the Internet,
designate one as your "Responsive router" and the other as your "Who
cares - it'll get through eventually"

Now, if everyone really cooperates, get everyone to set their default
gateway to the "Who cares" router, and then start adding in routes for
the time sensitive traffic to go through the fast router... (Eg. Game
servers, remote SSH hosts, really common interactive browsing websites
etc...

That way the background traffic (Downloads, email) will eventually work,
while stuff you're in front of the comptuer for should (hopefully)
respond a lot better.

This does require co-operation - personally I think someone will set
their default gateway to the fast router the first time their alone :-)

Cheers - Neil G

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On
Behalf Of JonoCo
Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2004 4:09 p.m.
To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
Subject: Combining two ADSL lines

If we were to get two ADSL lines into the house, what's the best way, if
at all, to organise some sort of QoS system so that small packets where
to run through one router, and big ones through another. Please excuse
my "not so sureness" of the situation, but how I see it is that a file
download/picture etc would have a larger packet size? Where as text
(like from a website)/game packets would have a smaller size? I'm
thinking along the lines of a Linux router box with two routers coming
off that?

Ideally, if you request data from a website any small stuff such as text
comes through one connection, and pictures come through the other
connection. Is this doable? Can imagine greatly speeding up web surfing
and game play, while downloading at the same time. Problem is that I'm
flatting with 7 other computer savvy people, so the one connection
doesn't get utilised too well.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Jono

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