Hi, just some feedback on my attempts to use MLPPP under LEAF. I can setup a single-bundle with a single-link and it encapsulates my traffic in the MLPPP packet, and I can send & receive traffic properly (and I can circumvent the backbone throttling) ... so the MLPPP works in that regard.
However I was not able to spawn a second link in the same bundle (on the same physical interface) and make it work - I'd either not seem to receive the inbound packets I could see via sniffing or my outbound packets would not trigger any response from the target server (no response packets were ever seen) - I was sniffing the traffic to watch activity. (This might be a limitation of MLPPP - can't have more than one link per physical interface?) More important though is this... There's been a project to get MLPPP working on the Linksys WRT routers - Tomato/MLPPP is the firmware version that is this effort (Tomato is the base firmware, the /MLPPP is the specialized build). See http://fixppp.org/ for more info on the /MLPPP efforts & source code. As I was debugging my attempts I got into looking into the src code for ppp and this is the state of affairs: - LEAF uses 'pure' Samba pppd 2.4.4, from http://ppp.samba.org/ - Debian adds some fixes to this for their releases of ppp ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ppp ) - the Tomato/MLPPP folks add some more fixes atop the Debian version, to get MLPPP working. From my observations some of the fixes are quite serious (one is a pppd-hang bugfix) So my supposition is that: -- definitely the Samba 2.4.4 MLPPP code is deficient, and thus LEAF's MLPPP is not 100% working/bugfixed/stable -- if someone wants MLPPP under LEAF they should use the Debian pppd code, merge in the Tomato/MLPPP code and have a possibly-solid setup. More info about the Tomato/MLPPP stuff: http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showpost.php?p=334588&postcount=15 (from thread: http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=57933 ) http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22301534-MLPPPLinux-Techie-Questions (DSL_Ricer & Guspaz are the usernames, in various forums, of the the two key folks behind the /MLPPP extension to Tomato.) Thx to kp for activating MLPPP in the LEAF build a while ago, and thx to all for LEAF! scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
