[c-nsp] Horrible MPPP Performance

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Fri Mar 6 23:12:54 EST 2009


Michael K. Smith wrote:
> Hello Everyone:
> 
> I have two 2800 series routers with 4, clear-channel T-1's between.  I'm
> running MPPP with the 4 T1's in the bundle.  Performance is *awful*.  100
> byte packets, 40 ms with 98% delivered.  1500 byte packets, 900 ms latency
> with 25% packet loss.
> 
> Here are my config snippets from the two routers.  I've done everything I
> can think of and nothing seems to change the performance.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> I've tried moving clock from one side to another, tried running with
> network-clock-participate on the line-clocked side, set both sides to line,
> set both sides to internal.  The configuration below is the only one that
> shows no slips, but the performance is still terrible.
> 
> I've also tried changing the load-balancing from per-packet to
> per-destination to FIFO to Fair queue.  Nothing changes.
> 


Why do you have load-sharing with MLPPP?

~Seth


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