From: Jason Madsen (madsen.jason@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 01:19:43 ART
amazing...more granular load balancing than per-packet or per-destination
etc. "show ppp multilink" displays the LFI if implemented and it truly does
load balance to just about as a specific a value as you want. seems like a
great feature for RTP / voice packets.
Jason
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP/Security)
>> bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com
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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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