A stupid question I can not get out of my head.

If I have 3 t-1's provided to me from 3 different companies all going to the same computer ( router / switch ) then how do I allocate which t1 gets what traffic?

reason of this question is :

I have one web site for french people, one for korean, and one for americans. so I would like to have the fastest pipes in those lanes beause those users are from those countries.

Also is there a way to blend these pipes so if one gets to full, I could cross over and use the others.

-Michael

Look up bgp routing, bgp routing determines which pipe to send the taffic out over....

Probably with something like BGP.

You will need to use BGP routing which will enable you to advertise your routes/ips to other systems. You would set-up an "AS" or "Autonomous Systems" which allows you to advertise your IP addresses on mulitple providers to determine the best route. Without BGP, the IP addresses are bound to 1 providers. If you use an IP address on AT&T it cannot "come in" or be routed onto UUNet.

This is the simple definition of it as it get's pretty complicated and expensive. You should talk to your largest provider as they should be able to help you set-up the AS, border routers and all the other stuff needed.

Hope that helps!

I've printed out your responses and made a memo to myself for further research. Very cool information.

It seems that it could cost a lot of money. But the chance to "blend bandwidth providers" seems to me a line that must be researched.

thank you all

p.s. if you have any other information please feel free to sending the link.

-Michael

Here are a few links:

http://joe.lindsay.net/bgp.html
http://www.coreth.com/~mpearce/bgp.html

Have fun!