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- From: dcarr@gandalf.ca (Dave Carr)
- Subject: Re: Low cost ether/isdn brouters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.182202.16972@gandalf.ca>
- Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
- References: <1993Jan21.151029.13640@gandalf.ca> <1993Jan22.002029.27149@informix.com> <1993Jan25.142206.17177@gandalf.ca> <1993Jan26.011730.185@informix.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:22:02 GMT
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- In <1993Jan26.011730.185@informix.com> johng@informix.com (John Galloway) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan25.142206.17177@gandalf.ca> dcarr@gandalf.ca (Dave Carr) writes:
- >>
- >>With bonding you only have one channel. With some software running on top
- >>of multilink, you can split the packet in pieces and load balance.
- >>Fragmentation in this case is not done like a router, but similar to the
- >>more bit in X.25.
-
- >These two topcis are also realated. If running completely seperate
- >B channels, then a user could leave one up all the time (and have a single
- >B chanles worth of resource on the host end dedicated to this user) but
- >only add the second on demand and thus have something like 1.25 B channels
- >for each user at the hub, and give 2 64K channels to most folks when
- >the need arises, but not have to have 2B channels dedicated to each user.
- >Digiboard claims they can do this with their IMAC with each B channel going
- >to a different user. However this scheme would not allow the 2Bs to be bonded.
- >In part this comes down to the question: do apps like ftp want an
- >ack after every packet and hence not be able to make use of 2 64K channels
- >as opposed to one 128K channel?
-
- This isn't an issue if you run LAPB multilink over multiple (not necessarily 2)
- links. You are free to split the frame, not fragment but equivalent to the
- X.25 more bit at layer 3, over the links and reassemble at the remote before
- transmitting out the ethernet. Then, you can load balance a single frame.
-
- Alternately, if the protocol supports a tranmission window as FTP does, you
- can use the links independently. However, I believe that a bridge/router
- should maintain the sequence of packets. This is not possible without adding
- the equivalent to a multilink sequence number over the links. You don't
- need LAPB for this. I don't know what Digiboard does.
-
- We run LAPB with multilink. But we do not (yet) split the frames for load
- balancing. We do it on a frame-by-frame basis.
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