On Mon, Aug 13, 2007, Robert Boyle wrote: > At 10:38 PM 8/13/2007, a. rahman isnaini r. sutan wrote: > >Am I right to say that MLPPP could utilize all bundled T1/E1 100% ? > >Or it might be wouldn't work normally as there some headers added on ? > >And recommended is 75% for a normal load balancing. > > > >Any suggestion would be appreciated. > > The MLPPP line protocol overhead is negligible. However, on some > platforms, the CPU overhead is high. On any modern Cisco router > (18xx/28xx/38xx+) or any higher end older router (3700,7200) you > should be fine up to the maximum of 8xT1/E1. Try 8xT1 with a full > 12Mbit/s on a 3620 or 4xT1 on a 2600 and you may run out of CPU.
It becomes less negligible as you add more bundles - it splits the packets up and transmits the fragments in parallel. Smaller packets == larger overhead == more waste. There's a diminishing return on adding more bundles into MLPPP. Adrian _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
