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Re: (ASCEND) Analog Multilink PPP and RAS




Matt,

What you describe is what I understood MP to be. The question that comes up
because of this then, is why would Livingston and maybe Ascend not support
MP over all types of links?

I keep seeing mixed responses as to whether the Ascend box does support MP
over any kind of link, while I saw a response from a Livingston guy who
indicated that their box only supports MP on ISDN calls.

Knowing that MP should not be related to the physical call type, why would
this limitation exist?

Can we get a definitive answer from Ascend as to whether or not the Ascend
boxes share this limitation? Again, I would expect that it is supported,
for the reasons you mentioned.

Charlie Clemmer

At 08:41 AM 5/23/97 -0700, Matt Holdrege wrote:
>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.

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