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Re: (ASCEND) Bonded T1's?
At 09:24 AM 12/31/97 -0600, Joe Shaw wrote:
>That's more of a kludgey solution. Any sensible person wanting to bond
>T1s needs to purchase an inverse multiplexer. Larscom has some nice units
>that scale from 1 to 4 T1s and work well, but they aren't cheap. They are
>easy to setup and work quite well. Of course, if you've got channelized
>T1s, I'm sure it's possible, but it just doesn't seem like a good idea,
>unless you really want to try it.
>
>Advertising one set of routes via one T1 and then another set of routes
>is a bad idea. If one goes down, so does half of your network. I'd
>rather use an inverse mux and a dedicated router doing BGP than say
>rip/ospf over serial links into a max.
If one T1 goes down, the routes will move over to the other T1 if you
configure the router properly. BGP is not required, OSPF will work fine.
But yes, an imux will work much better than Multilink PPP.
Matt Holdrege http://www.ascend.com matt@ascend.com
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