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The Cisco IOS Link Fragmentation and Interleaving (LFI) feature uses Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol (MLP). MLP provides a method of splitting, recombining, and sequencing datagrams across multiple logical data links. MLP allows packets to be fragmented and the fragments to be sent at the same time over multiple point-to-point links to the same remote address.
This chapter describes the tasks required to configure MLP, and it includes example configurations.
To locate documentation of commands that appear in this chapter, use the command reference master index, or search online.
To configure MLP, perform the tasks in the following sections.
Interleaving on MLP allows large packets to be multilink encapsulated and fragmented into a small enough size to satisfy the delay requirements of real-time traffic; small real-time packets are not multilink encapsulated and are transmitted between fragments of the large packets.
The interleaving feature also provides a special transmit queue for the smaller, delay-sensitive packets, enabling them to be transmitted earlier than other flows.
WFQ is supported on all interfaces that support MLP, including MLP virtual access interfaces and virtual interface templates.
Fair queueing on MLP overcomes a prior restriction. Previously, fair queueing was not allowed on virtual access interfaces and virtual interface templates. Interleaving provides the delay bounds for delay-sensitive voice packets on a slow link that is used for other best-effort traffic.
Interleaving applies only to interfaces that can configure a multilink bundle interface. These interfaces include virtual templates, dialer interfaces, and ISDN BRI or PRI interfaces.
Multilink and fair queueing are not supported when a multilink bundle is off-loaded to a different system using Multichassis Multilink PPP (MMP). Thus, interleaving is not supported in MMP networking designs.
Step 1 Configure the dialer interface, BRI interface, PRI interface, or virtual interface template, as defined in the relevant Cisco IOS documents.
Step 2 Configure MLP and interleaving on the interface or template.
To configure MLP and interleaving on a configured and operational interface or virtual interface template, use the following commands in interface configuration mode:
| Step | Command | Purpose | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ppp multilink | Enable MLP. | ||
| Enable real-time packet interleaving. | |||
| ppp multilink fragment-delay milliseconds | Optionally, configure a maximum fragment delay. If, for example, you want a voice stream to have a maximum bound on delay of 20 milliseconds (ms) and you specify 20 ms using this command, MLP will choose a fragment size based on the configured value. | ||
| ip rtp reserve lowest-UDP-port range-of-ports [maximum-bandwidth] | Reserve a special queue for real-time packet flows to specified destination User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports, allowing real-time traffic to have higher priority than other flows. If the bandwidth exceeds the limit specified, the reserved queue is degraded to a best-effort queue. (Use of this command is helpful in improving delay bounds of real-time traffic, such as voice streams, by giving them a higher priority.) | ||
| For virtual interface templates only, apply the virtual interface template to the multilink bundle.1 |
| 1This step is not used for ISDN or dialer interfaces. |
Interleaving statistics can be displayed by using the show interfaces command, specifying the particular interface on which interleaving is enabled. Interleaving data is displayed only if there are interleaves. For example, the following line shows interleaves:
Output queue: 315/64/164974/31191 (size/threshold/drops/interleaves)
To monitor virtual interfaces, use the following command in EXEC mode:
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
Display MLP and MMP. |
The following example defines a virtual interface template that configures MLP interleaving and a maximum real-time traffic delay of 20 ms, and then applies that virtual template to the MLP bundle:
interface virtual-template 1 ip unnumbered ethernet 0 ppp multilink ppp multilink interleave ppp multilink fragment-delay 20 ip rtp interleave 32768 20 1000 multilink virtual-template 1
The following example configures MLP interleaving on a dialer interface that controls a rotary group of BRI interfaces. This configuration permits IP packets to trigger calls.
interface BRI0 description connected into a rotary group encapsulation ppp dialer rotary-group 1 ! interface BRI1 no ip address encapsulation ppp dialer rotary-group 1 interface BRI2 encapsulation ppp dialer rotary-group 1 ! interface BRI3 no ip address encapsulation ppp dialer rotary-group 1 ! interface BRI4 encapsulation ppp dialer rotary-group 1 ! interface Dialer0 description Dialer group controlling the BRIs ip address 8.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 encapsulation ppp dialer map ip 8.1.1.2 name angus 14802616900 dialer-group 1 ppp authentication chap ! Enables Multilink PPP interleaving on the dialer interface and reserves ! a special queue. ppp multilink ppp multilink interleave ip rtp reserve 32768 20 1000 ! Keeps fragments of large packets small enough to ensure delay of 20 ms or less. ppp multilink fragment-delay 20 dialer-list 1 protocol ip permit
Posted: Thu Jun 3 14:26:08 PDT 1999
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