[j-nsp] MLPPP Overhead Question

[Ben Bird]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:54:44 -0700, "Scott Weeks" <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:

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>Hello,
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>I'm searching the web for data on the overhead of using MLPPP and not having too much success.  If I'm gluing two T1s together do I still get 1.536 times two or is there impact on this from the MLPPP?
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Enabling MLPPP will not change the clock-rate of the constituent-links.  But the PPP frame overhead will be increased by
either 4 or 2 bytes, per multilink fragment.  This depends on whether long or short sequence number fragment format is
negotiated for the bundle.

See RFC 1990, section 3.

Regards,
Ben