[c-nsp] Dual E1/T1 - best practice in combining them?

[Seth Mattinen]

Garry Glendown wrote:
> I have just enabled a second E1 for a customer. No problem there as
> such, just two point-to-point links with same weight routes pointing
> towards both links, results in a pretty equal distribution of the
> traffic flows on both links. Of course  this also means a single flow
> will only have a maximum of 2mbit of bandwidth available (which in this
> case isn't really much of a problem - at least not yet). I could go
> Multilink PPP, but as the lines are supposed to be redundant, I don't
> want to risk the whole bundle being unusable if one of the links is dead ...
> 

You should use multilink PPP. If one of the links dies, it just gets 
removed from the bundle.

~Seth