[cisco-nas] multilink on unequal links

Dennis Peng dpeng at cisco.com
Mon Jun 16 09:57:14 EDT 2003


Anastassios Chatzithomaoglou [achatz at forthnet.gr] wrote:
> 
> 
> Dennis Peng wrote:
> 
> >Anastassios Chatzithomaoglou [achatz at forthnet.gr] wrote:
> >
> >>We have 2 serial links, one 2 Mbps kai one 512 Kbps.
> >>
> >>If we make a multink interface consisting of these 2, how will it work 
> >>after the 512kbps barrier?
> >
> >
> >We will send 4 times the number of bytes on the 2Mbps link as compared
> >to the 512kbps link. This should provide proper load
> >distribution. "show ppp multilink" should show some information
> >pertaining to this.
> >
> 
> So when the 1st link is 80% full, the 2nd link will be 80% too?

That is my understanding.

> Does it depend on the "bandwidth" interface command?

Yes.

Dennis

> 
> >Dennis
> >
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