From: Jason Madsen (madsen.jason@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 01:15:00 ART
ah, ok that's pretty cool. multilink is capable of fragmenting packets and
interleaving smaller packets into the mix.
thanks,
Jason
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Brian McGahan <
bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
> If you bind two interfaces together via bridging (BVI) then one interface
> will be blocking through spanning-tree. If you multilink them together with
> PPP packets can be fragmented to improve utilization and decrease latency
> over the links. With multilink PPP (MLPPP) you can also do this between
> multiple physical devices with multichassis multilink PPP.
>
>
> HTH,
>
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> Jason Madsen wrote:
>
> I guess multilinks are limited to PPP encapsulation...didn't realize that a
> minute ago. BVIs are pretty much transparent it seems.
>
> Jason
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com> <madsen.jason@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> anyone have any practical experience or knowledge of the benefits of
> bundling serial interfaces with a multilink vs. a BVI with irb or vice
> versa? they seem to have many similar features / benefits.
>
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