Hey all. I came across something and I can't find a good answer anywhere. So here goes.
There is a 7500 router with multiple T1s that go to many remote sites. Some of these remote sites use multiple T1 lines. These are configured with PPP Multilink and Virtual Templates. I know that when configuring MLP without Virtual Templates, you can specify a multilink group (bundle). However, we aren't specifying a bundle or group number on our serial interfaces. We simply have them using MLP and then a "multilink virtual-template 1" command. Here's my question. How does the router (the Virtual Template) know which line to put in which bundle? Does it use a neighbor-type relationship to determine which links need to be part of which bundles? Here is a sample of the output from the "hub" router: ------------------------------------------------------ Router#show ppp mul Bundle Site1, 2 members, Master link is Virtual-Access1 696774 lost fragments, 77484296 reordered, 0 unassigned, sequence 0x216AF0/0xBD6863 rcvd/sent 317583 discarded, 17 lost received, 34/255 load Member Links: 2 Serial5/0/0 Serial5/0/1 Bundle Site2, 2 members, Master link is Virtual-Access2 483 lost fragments, 4395802 reordered, 0 unassigned, sequence 0xB0B211/0x7718D rcvd/sent 145 discarded, 0 lost received, 245/255 load Member Links: 2 Serial11/0/0 Serial11/0/1 ------------------------------------------------------ So again, how did the Virtual-Template know to group S5/0/0 and S5/0/1 into a bundle? A secondary question: What's the advantage(s) to using Virtual-Templates over simply configuring the MLP bundles directly? If anyone has a good link or document about how Cisco implements MLP with and without Virutal-Templates, let me know. Aside from straight "here's how to configure" documents, I can't find any good info. Thanks! Mike W. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=26877&t=26877 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
