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Posted by Thrill5 on March 2, 2007, 8:09 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options You can't do MLPPP with frame-relay. Depending on the size of your WAN
connections and the amount of data you are pushing through them, it is very,
very possible that you will spike the CPU to 100% on a 2611 if you turn off
CEF. The CPU on a 2611 is pretty feeble.
Scott
>>Yes I do have two WIC cards. Right now we have just one Frame Relay T1
>>connection. To mount the second WIC do I gotter simply power off and
>>put it in. Is it possible this to screw up the current configuration?
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> Yes, just power down and swap in the card. Power on, and the existing
> config won't even mention the new card until you configure something.
>
>>How is this working with Frame Relay? Can I use CEF because as I found
>>MLPPP needs more processer power?
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> Only slightly more CPU, but MLPPP requires PPP underlying encapsulation.
> (You didn't mention your encapsulation in the first post, so they
> probably assumed). The CPU usage isn't too much an issue on a 2611
> with only two T1s.
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> First off, do you control both sides of this link?
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> The best method is going to involve the other side to match what you do.
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> You could use Multi-Link FR, but upgrading the 2611 to support MLFR
> might be too painful to bother with.
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> You can also do CEF per-packet load balancing, but unless the other
> side matches, your inbound is only going to be utilizing one T1.
>
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