> In the 90s I installed proxy servers at several small businesses in order to share a dialup connection to other PCs in the network. If your customer was chea

> In the 90s I installed proxy servers at several small businesses in order to share a dialup connection to other PCs in the network. If your customer was cheap and needed more bandwidth you could use EQL[0] to load-balance a PPP connection over multiple POTS/ISDN lines if your ISP supported multiple connections. I set this up for a number of businesses back then when office staff started arguing with each over who was using all the bandwidth from a single 28K modem. [0]https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/eql.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/eql.txt