On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Vandy Hamidi wrote: > > I would agree only under certain limited situations. Per packet load > balancing COULD increase jitter, and if you're running VOIP (or similar > protocols) could degrade performance. It could also affect TCP > performance (on OSes not SACK enabled) as well. This would only really > happen if you're T1's are near capacity (~above 80% or so). Near when > queues start causing noticeable delays. > > If were talking about 2 identically configured T1's, on the same router, > through the same loop provider, connected to one ISP--I highly doubt a > situation where packet reordering would arise. It's not impossible, but > unlikely as all the circuits would be utilized the same, thus queue > delays should be similar across the board. > > I've done this on a private network with 4 T1's and never had a problem. > We were pushing 100GB database dumps across it and performance did > quadruple over the single T1.
Yes, but the original poster was dealing with DS3s connected to different NAPs, which is why the packet out-of-order issue can be significant. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---