Re: Multilink PPP vs V.120 (fwd)

David Denney (daud@dimensional.com)
Wed, 5 Jun 1996 11:10:17 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, E. Todd Taylor wrote:

> > >Also, does the 5BRI card support AdTran's "Bonding Mode 1" protocol for
> > >fixed bandwidth 2B conversations?
> >
> > No - that protocol is old and outdated. We have no plans of supporting it.
> > It was used mainly for videoconferencing and the like - data communication
> > should use PPP or V.120. AdTran said they will get around to doing MLPPP.
>
> As of a couple of months ago, they had tried their first pass at MP. It
> almost worked - the first channel started doing MP (a good thing), but the
> second channel was still doing PPP (not MP, so a bad thing)..I would expect
> that they have it figured out by now though.

I have a customer who is now (finally!) running with an AdTran using their
MPP code, and it finally works! He was up for 5 days straight yesterday on
both channels. He was very upset that Livingston considers BONDING MODE 1
to be old and outdated and won't support it, but is happy now that Adtran
finally supports MPP.

> E. Todd Taylor Livingston Enterprises Inc. Phone: (800) 458-9966

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