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Re: (ASCEND) Analog Multilink PPP and RAS
At 10:11 AM 5/23/97 -0500, Charlie Clemmer wrote:
>At 03:53 PM 5/22/97 -0700, Kevin Smith wrote:
>>>With two analog phone lines? Multilink PPP does not specify ISDN only. One
>>>could use Multilink PPP to aggregate multiple T1 lines together, or
>>>multiple analog lines, or multiple ISDN B channels.
>
>>The specs allow you to bundle any _combination_ of link types too. I don't
>>know of *anyone* currently doing this though...
>
>Any combination how? Different line speeds? Different call types?
>
>We support combinations with different link types, either async or sync.
Folks, MP operates at a layer above the physical connection or media. You
can combine any types of calls in any increment. I've seen NT call the Max
with one analog call bundled with one ISDN call. Or two analog calls
together. I've seen the Max call a Bay router with 23 channels of MP.
All MP does is take (in one case) the endpoint discriminator and compare it
with any other call it has, be it analog or MP or whatever. If there is a
match, it bundles the two calls together. I haven't tested it on the Max
5.0ap branch, but by the reports here I might assume that the Max code
didn't check ED on analog calls. But the reports say that it does in the i
branch.
Matt Holdrege - http://www.ascend.com - matt@ascend.com
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