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Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () dimension net>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:56:04 -0400 (EDT)
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. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () dimension net Network Engineer (CCIE #3440) - Dimension Enterprises 1-703-709-7500, fax, 1-703-709-7699
Current thread:
- How to loadshare over many E1 links Jesper Skriver (Sep 18)
- Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links Jared Mauch (Sep 18)
- Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links Brandon Ross (Sep 19)
- Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links Leo Bicknell (Sep 18)
- Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links Scott Whyte (Sep 18)
- Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links Simon Leinen (Sep 21)
- Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links Geoff Huston (Sep 21)
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- RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links Martin, Christian (Sep 18)
- RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links Martin, Christian (Sep 18)
- RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links Martin, Christian (Sep 18)
- Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links Jared Mauch (Sep 18)
- RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links Martin, Christian (Sep 18)
- RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links Chris Cappuccio (Sep 18)
- RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links Barry L James (Sep 18)
- RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links Chris Cappuccio (Sep 18)
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- Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links Jared Mauch (Sep 18)