[sf-lug] bonding 3G via bluetooth...

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM, jason stone<jasonstone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you do a Beowulf of them too?  (sorry for the 90s meme-- i was
> getting nostalgic)
>

don't tempt me >8-)~

Sameer

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Dennis J Harrison
>> Jr<dennisharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This sounds "Oh, so; FUN!".
>>>
>>> WRT to all you can eat data - most plans are limited to ~5GB/mo (iirc)
>>>
>>
>> If we are looking at two phones, 10GB a month is not that bad, really.
>> Note that one voids one's contract terms, I believe (tethering may not
>> be kosher as per the contract).
>>
>>> I've done this with dsl connections before (back in the mid to late
>>> 90s I think).
>>>
>>> Anywho; I have all the junk here to give it a go if you want to maybe
>>> do a quick sprint on this to see how far we can get in an afternoon?
>>>
>>
>> Excellent! Will ping you in a bit...slightly busy with a bunch of
>> things. Maybe we can make it a SF-LUG exercise ;-)
>>
>> Sameer
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>>> Here's an idea I've been mulling over.
>>>>
>>>> Scenario: Let's say, we have two Bluetooth-enabled 3G phones with "all
>>>> you can eat" contract. Let's say, I also have a DSL connection (eth0)
>>>> that runs into a home LAN management machine (Linux box to manage
>>>> traffic, etc.). What if I install two Bluetooth radios, and create a
>>>> bond (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bonding) say, bond0 = eth0
>>>> + bluepppd0 + bluepppd1 and whenever the machine detects one or both
>>>> 3G phones, it sets up the pppd and bonds into it, thereby increasing
>>>> my aggregate bandwidth?
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone tried this?
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Sameer
>>>>
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