MLPPP Follow Up - How we fixed the problem

Thu Apr 1 14:38:37 UTC 2004

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Paul Stewart wrote:

> Any issues with more than 2 connections?  We have a customer that we are
> doing this for right now with two T1's.. Customer wants a third one
> possibly.. Can't see a problem but thought I'd ask...
>
> How many could you theoretically do if you really had to? ;)

AFAIK, depending on IOS version, the max-paths you can load balance with
CEF is 6 or 8.  i.e. In some older versions, it is 6, and I've had to do
upgrades to get 8 T1's to load share.

Most instances of this that I've done have been on our own network where
we use OSPF on the T1's and set maximum-paths in router ospf.  I have
seen/done 4xT1 service load balanced to customers using static routes.

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