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Re: Bonded (MLPPP) on 3640 routers -- disapointingperformance
cisco-nas-bounces@puck.nether.net <> wrote on :

> Hi All,
>
> I am running two Cisco 3640 routers with two (2) T1 WIC DSU's
> each. My
> provider, broadwing, supplied me with bonded T1's.
>
> Each router connects to two T1's running MLPPP. When running bonded
> (MLPPP) I see only a 10% increase in bandwidth.
> I have tested each DSU individually and confirmed the 1.3-1.4 mbps
> connection. However, when bonded and running MLPPP the
> bandwidth increases only to about 1.7 mbps up and 1.4 mbps down.
>
> I believe that the 3640 is well within it's ability to handle 3 mbps
> traffic, but I am not getting that.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

how did you measure the performance? How's your CPU load, and are you
interrupt-switching your traffic? Do you see many "lost fragments" or
"discared fragments" in "show ppp multilink"?

oli

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