Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () ibm net il>]

At 11:56 AM 9/18/98 -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:

On a slightly related matter, does anyone know how to load balance
non-parallel links to a BGP peer?  Thanks, Hank

> 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