Allocating b-channels on demand (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 02:10:19 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Bill Butler shaped the electrons to say...
> Location: telalink Type: Automatic
> Destination: Negotiated Netmask: 255.255.255.0
> Protocol: PPP Options: Quiet, VJ-Comp, Multilink
> Group: 0 Max Ports: 8
>Idle Timeout: 2 minutes High Mark: 100 bytes
> Mtu: 1500 Async Map: 00000000
> Username: testpipe Password: telasar
> Telephone: 7771111
>
>As you can see, I have Type set to Automatic, Max ports set to 8 (yes 512K)
>and my High Mark set to 100 bytes. Here's the most interesting part: No
>matter what value I choose to use for High Mark, I always get the same
>behavior from the PM. Like clockwork (every 120 secs), the pm dials up
>another b channel and adds it to the multilink group. The channels go up
>and they never come back down.

Which is how it will always work with 'automatic'. That tells the location
to bring up the max channels immediately and keep them up forever.

>I expect someone on this list is going to tell me that I should set the
>connection to On-Demand. I did that already & also worked with a wide array
>of high marks. In this case, I found that the high mark also seemed to have
>no effect. The first b-channel would indeed kick in on demand but
>subsequent channels never did connect.

Did you have more than the high water mark of traffic flowing OUT?

I do it on my OR, works ok.

-MZ

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