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PPPoE multilink
I've been using multiple bundled SHDSL connections (using Cisco 1800's and 2800's) with our ATM DSLAMS for quite some time now, this was terminated on the BRAS like so:

interface Multilink72
description yyy
ip vrf forwarding zzz
ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.252
ppp multilink
ppp multilink group 72

interface ATM1/0.vvv point-to-point
description yyy->line 1
ip vrf forwarding zzz
pvc 0/vvv
encapsulation aal5snap
protocol ppp Virtual-Template72
!
!
interface ATM1/0.vvv+1 point-to-point
description yyy->line 2
ip vrf forwarding zzz
pvc 0/vvv+1
encapsulation aal5snap
protocol ppp Virtual-Template72
!

interface Virtual-Template72
ip vrf forwarding zzz
no ip address
ppp multilink
ppp multilink group 72

This worked fine, and with as many links as the customers wanted using a very similar setup on the customer router against it.

Now I want to do the same thing, for a customer connected to an "IP DSLAM" i.e. the BRAS terminates the ATM connection itself, and I want to do it over PPPoE, since that's how the BRAS is setup towards the "IP DSLAM".

Show ppp multilink says:

Virtual-Access4, bundle name is B0x-TEST
Endpoint discriminator is B0x-TEST
Bundle up for 00:03:08, 1/255 load
Receive buffer limit 24384 bytes, frag timeout 1000 ms
Dialer interface is Dialer1
0/0 fragments/bytes in reassembly list
24 lost fragments, 45 reordered
14/1244 discarded fragments/bytes, 0 lost received
0xAA received sequence, 0x95 sent sequence
Member links: 2 (max not set, min not set)
Vi2, since 00:03:14
Vi3, since 00:03:11
No inactive multilink interfaces

Vi2 and Vi3 are straight copies from Dialer1.

Dialer 1 config is:

interface Dialer1
mtu 1492
bandwidth 4000
ip address negotiated
ip load-sharing per-packet
ip nat outside
encapsulation ppp
dialer pool 1
dialer idle-timeout 600
dialer-group 1
ppp pap sent-username xxxxxx password 0 xxxxx

The config for the SHDSL interfaces:
interface ATM0/0/0
no ip address
no atm ilmi-keepalive
!
interface ATM0/0/0.33 point-to-point
pvc 0/33
encapsulation aal5snap
pppoe-client dial-pool-number 1
!
!
interface ATM0/1/0
no ip address
no atm ilmi-keepalive
!
interface ATM0/1/0.33 point-to-point
pvc 0/33
encapsulation aal5snap
pppoe-client dial-pool-number 1

The virtual-template on the BRAS terminating the pppoe client:

interface Virtual-Template1
ip vrf forwarding ggggg
ip unnumbered Loopback0
ip mtu 1492
ip tcp adjust-mss 1400
no logging event link-status
load-interval 30
no peer default ip address
ppp authentication pap chap
ppp multilink
end

IOS on the 1841 test CPE is 12.3(8r)T8

IOS on the 7206 NPE-G1 test BRAS is 12.3(5a)B5

This "works". I can ping the BRAS just fine, no packet loss even on large packets. However, if I ping something, outside of the bras, I get heavy packet loss (40-60%) and some packets never seem to get through. Removing ppp multilink from dialer1 solves the problem, but of course only allows the end user to use one of his SHDSL connections.

Of course I could split this up into two dialers, assign each ATM interface into a different dial pool, and route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 over both dialer1 and dialer2, doing load sharing, but that doesn't give the customer a single download of n*2Mbits like he is used to, and it's going to be very hard for me to explain to the customer that he does indeed get all the bandwidth he used to, just not all on one connection.

I've experimented with ppp multilink interleave and ppp multilink fragment settings to no avail.

Has anyone successfully done PPP multilink on two PPPoE connections? And if not, is there another way to implement the same functionality, preferebly one that allows the user to reach his maximum speed (n*2Mbit) on a single download? I have the option to have the customer connections split into a separate vlan from the normal PPPoE traffic, and I could also split it into two (or more) separate vlans (one for each connection) if that enables a solution.

Best regards,
Sigurbjörn B. Lárusson
Network Specialist

E-mail: sigurbjornl@ogvodafone.is
Tel: (+354) 599 9000
Fax: (+354) 599 9005

Og Vodafone
Sidumuli 28
108 Reykjavik
Iceland
www.ogvodafone.is



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