[19594] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Fri Sep 18 12:00:25 1998
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:56:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@dimension.net>
To: jesper@skriver.dk, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: bicknell@dimension.net
In-Reply-To: <19980918095708.B10051@skriver.dk>
In article <19980918095708.B10051@skriver.dk> you write:
>How would you loadshare over many (>6) parallel E1 links. Currently we
>do it by connecting them directly to the Cisco's in each end, and do
>CEF based per-packet loadsharing, it works fine, but support a max of
>6 E1's ...
Cisco has a nice white paper on this:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/733/adap/multi/althb_wp.htm
I think Multilink PPP may be your answer, as it goes
up to 8 links. There is a CPU hit though, I've never tried
Multilink on a high speed interface so I don't know how bad
it might affect the router.
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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@dimension.net
Network Engineer (CCIE #3440) - Dimension Enterprises
1-703-709-7500, fax, 1-703-709-7699
