[c-nsp] load-balance over multiple E1

Jay Hennigan jay at west.net
Wed Oct 6 02:35:07 EDT 2004


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, James Edwards wrote:

> put this command on each interface you wish to per-packet
> load balance & keep in mind you need to do this to both sides
> of the connection.
>
> ip load-sharing per-packet

Alternatively, consider multilink PPP and combining the serial links into
a bundle.  This will tax router CPU more than load-sharing per-packet
but is much friendlier to traffic such as VoIP that doesn't play well with
jitter and out-of-order packets.

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