RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links

["Martin, Christian" <CMartin () mercury balink com>]

I didn't know there was any full-duplex 10BaseT spec...

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Whyte [mailto:swhyte () cisco com]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 11:40 AM
> To: Jesper Skriver; nanog () merit edu
> Cc: tdk-backbone () t dk
> Subject: Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links
>
>
> Jesper,
>
> You might consider MLP (multi-link PPP), with VIP2/50's.
>
> If you do go with an IMUX, I definitely recommend a HSSI to 
> the routers, rather than Ethernet, unless the Ethernet is 
> full-duplex.  I've seen really poor performance due to 
> collisions on the Ethernets at either end because the middle 
> is actually 16Mbps full-duplex...
>
> Scott
>
>
> At 12:57 AM 9/18/98 , Jesper Skriver wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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 ...
> >
> > I've been thinking om something similar to the Larscom inverse MUX
> > (http://www.larscom.com/t3ft3/t3_megae.htm), but this one 
> only support
> > 4 E1's, then I can use multiple i-mux's and loadshare over 
> the 8M links
> > they provide, but it seems like a poor solution.
> >
> > Yes, I do know that a E3 would be a far better choice, but our ADM 
> > (Add-Drop-Multiplexer??) at this specific location only support
> > E1's :-(
> >
> > /Jesper
> >
> > -- 
> > Jesper Skriver (JS249-RIPE), Network manager      
> > Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292)
> >
> > One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them,
> > One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
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