On 1/13/2015 6:04 PM, Christoph Schulz wrote: > Hello! > > Christoph Schulz schrieb am Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:56:25 +0100: > >> By the way, how does Solaris solve this problem? [...] > > Never mind, I forgot that pppd supports multilink PPP only under Linux. Yes, exactly. At Sun, we had a multilink implementation, but there wasn't much call for it. The best reason to use MP is to bond together the two B channels in Basic-Rate ISDN or two or more B channels in Primary-Rate ISDN. Those links tend to be tightly controlled in terms of delay and error rate, so they work well for MP. And not many people ended up caring too much about ISDN. (Yeah, I know there are still aficionados out there ...) If because the segmentation/reassembly process in MP works only as well as the worst-performing link, it tends to be an overall loss if you have links that differ. A better plan is to use multipath IP routes -- ECMP across multiple independent ordinary (non-MP) PPP links -- if you have links that differ. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
