Scott Huffman
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CISCO 3640 Bonding DSL MLPPP
I've setup MLPPP in my cisco router connecting through DSL. The problem I'm having is the full use of the PIPE. I'm using MLPPP to bond 2 DSL channels. Each channel is 6mb x 512k. So in theory I should have 12mb x 1mb.
On the customer end is a Cisco 3640 router that connects to a local DSLAM that then connects to an ATM cloud which terminates into a Cisco 7206vxr. On both end's of the connection I see the following:
Interface User Mode Idle Peer Address
Vi1 PPPoE 00:00:03
Vi2 MLP Bundle 00:00:25 10.10.10.xxx
Vi3 PPPoE 00:00:03
At my core router 7206vxr I see the following:
Interface User Mode Idle Peer Address
Vi21 user1 PPPoVPDN 00:00:01
Vi22 user1 PPPoVPDN 00:00:10
Vi23 user1 MLP Bundle 00:00:01 10.10.10.xxx
When I preform a speed test at speedtest.net or speakeasy.net/speedtest my results are as follows
On the down 5.2mb (not 12mb)
But on the upload I can hit almost the full speed of the bonded MLPPP circuit.
On the up .9mb (not 1.0mb)
I've attached my config for the cisco 3640. Items are commented out such as VPN and user info.
I need to be able to hit the full down. My customer doesn't believe they have a 12mb pipe. Please any help that can help me fix this is greatly apprecaited.
On the customer end is a Cisco 3640 router that connects to a local DSLAM that then connects to an ATM cloud which terminates into a Cisco 7206vxr. On both end's of the connection I see the following:
Interface User Mode Idle Peer Address
Vi1 PPPoE 00:00:03
Vi2 MLP Bundle 00:00:25 10.10.10.xxx
Vi3 PPPoE 00:00:03
At my core router 7206vxr I see the following:
Interface User Mode Idle Peer Address
Vi21 user1 PPPoVPDN 00:00:01
Vi22 user1 PPPoVPDN 00:00:10
Vi23 user1 MLP Bundle 00:00:01 10.10.10.xxx
When I preform a speed test at speedtest.net or speakeasy.net/speedtest my results are as follows
On the down 5.2mb (not 12mb)
But on the upload I can hit almost the full speed of the bonded MLPPP circuit.
On the up .9mb (not 1.0mb)
I've attached my config for the cisco 3640. Items are commented out such as VPN and user info.
I need to be able to hit the full down. My customer doesn't believe they have a 12mb pipe. Please any help that can help me fix this is greatly apprecaited.
If you're getting full speed on your upstream, it looks like the interleaving on the multilink is working just fine. If you're only getting one channel's worth in downstream bandwidth, I would look toward the multilink configuration on the other end of the connection to see if it is properly using both channels and if not, why not?.
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Do you have suggestions on where to look? On the router. I only have the following added that allows the MLPPP to show up
Note I've removed part of the config.
!
vpdn enable
!
vpdn-group BBG
accept-dialin
protocol l2tp
virtual-template 1
terminate-from hostname xxxxxxxxx
lcp renegotiation always
no l2tp tunnel authentication
!
vpdn-group WBBGDefault
! Default L2TP VPDN group
accept-dialin
protocol l2tp
virtual-template 2
source-ip xxxxxxxxxxxxx
lcp renegotiation always
l2tp tunnel password 7 xxxxxxx
!
!
interface Virtual-Template1
ip unnumbered FastEthernet1/0
peer default ip address pool DSLPOOL
ppp authentication pap
ppp multilink
!
interface Virtual-Template2
ip unnumbered Loopback1
peer default ip address pool DSLPOOL
ppp authentication pap
ppp multilink
!
!
Note I've removed part of the config.
!
vpdn enable
!
vpdn-group BBG
accept-dialin
protocol l2tp
virtual-template 1
terminate-from hostname xxxxxxxxx
lcp renegotiation always
no l2tp tunnel authentication
!
vpdn-group WBBGDefault
! Default L2TP VPDN group
accept-dialin
protocol l2tp
virtual-template 2
source-ip xxxxxxxxxxxxx
lcp renegotiation always
l2tp tunnel password 7 xxxxxxx
!
!
interface Virtual-Template1
ip unnumbered FastEthernet1/0
peer default ip address pool DSLPOOL
ppp authentication pap
ppp multilink
!
interface Virtual-Template2
ip unnumbered Loopback1
peer default ip address pool DSLPOOL
ppp authentication pap
ppp multilink
!
!
This looks a bit strange. You've got an MLPPP configuration with no L2TP on the 3640, but the 7206VXR is configured to terminate L2TP. What is terminating the PPPoE connection on the 3640?
If you're wanting to use PPPoE across the ATM network and terminate at the 7206VXR, your VPDN should be PPPoE rather than L2TP. That is assuming that the ATM network is providing a transparent connection between the routers and that you're authenticating/connecting directly to the 7206VXR though.
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Well - we're connecting to a ATM Cloud provided by the Telco in Charlotte, NC - Bellsouth - now AT&T - all users authenticate via our radius using PPPOE. We have to establish our connecting into the ATM cloud. The VPDN group for BBG & WBBG is where the connecting comes in. We then use the Virtual Template 1 & 2. Seems to me this is where I need to focus my efforts to tell the router to use both channels down to the 3640.
I would say so. If the 3640 is using the 7206VXR as its path to the Internet, then the MLPPP is obviously providing basic functionality regardless of what I would see as discrepancies in the configuration. Now it's just a matter of getting the 7206VXR to load-balance traffic back to the 3640. Part of that is going to involve assigning a multilink group to your virtual template, which is currently missing. This could prove problematic if you have multiple multilink sites coming in. It's worth testing for one though.
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bonded-config.txt