>Emerging Technologies announces the availability of multi-line load
>balancing features for it sychronous adapters for FreeBSD, Linux and
>BSD/OS. The new feature allows up to 8 lines or frame relay DLCIs to
>be "bundled" together in load balancing or fallback/backup configurations.
>
>Load balanced lines are bundled with a simple utility that builds stacks
>of "pipes" which are automatically balanced within the supplied drivers.
>Synchronous lines may be balanced along with frame relay dlcis to 
>create simple yet powerful multi-path redundant networks. Individual
>lines or DLCIs can also be designated as  "fallback" only, in which case
>traffic will be re-routed to those lines only if the primary pipe is out of 
>service.
>
>The software also supports "directed" load-balancing, which allows 
>administrators to target traffic from specifc sources to a specific pipe.
>As an example, an installation with 2 T1 lines could have all of its
>dial-up traffic routed to one T1 and all local and serial line traffic
>routed to the other. This can be used to create priority pipes or simply
>to assign bandwidth on a source by source basis.
>
>The next release will allow specific types of traffic to be routed to a
>particular pipe, such as WEB and FTP traffic to one pipe and TELNET and
>domain traffic to another.
>
>Information about these new features is available at www.etinc.com.
>


Just FYI. Since we didnt get any feedback on our last port to netbsd
I just assume that there isn't any interest.

Dennis