> On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 1997 at 06:46:15PM -0500, Portmaster wrote:
> > > Does MCPPP require that the portmasters be on the same ethernet segment
> > > or can it work in a switched environment?
> > >
> >
> > An Etherswitch is effectively one segment.
>
> This just got me wondering. How the heck does MCPPP work? Say I dial in
> and connect to PM3's at 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3 and am givin an IP
> address of 10.1.1.1. How is traffic destined for 10.1.1.1 going to load
> balance across the two different PM3's? Does it require you use proxy-arp
> and they take turns arping for the dialup address? I wouldn't expect that
> to work due to arp caches.
No, the route for your address will point to the first PM3. If that PM3
finds that the channel is busy, it will send some traffic to the second
PM3 to balance the traffic.
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Tom