Re: OT - PPP Multilink and TCP flows

No, CEF load balancing works that way, but MLP is different. It has its own load balancing mechanism that fragments packets to send across all of the physical links simultaneously. It does sequencing (controlled by PPP frame header) and reassembles the packets at the destination.

Ronnie

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On Nov 24, 2011, at 5:18 PM, mihai <mihai_at_ngnpath.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I haven't touched in a while PPP Multilink over 2E1/T1.
> RFC 1990 and RFC1717 don't mention anything related to load-balancing based on TCP flows over the physical ckt.
>
> Does Cisco implementation of PPP Multilink consider IPs + TCP ports when it does load-balancing over the physical ckts?
>
> Thank you for your input,
>
> Mihai
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