Load-Sharing for Synchronous PPP Links

Load-sharing is a Sun-specific enhancement to the standard implementation of PPP. It increases the available bandwidth by sharing the network traffic from one IP interface equally between two or more synchronous links, as shown in Figure 1-6.

Figure 1-6 Load-Sharing over Synchronous Links

For optimum performance, all of the synchronous devices used for load-sharing must be operating at the same line speed. Both ends of the link must be running Solstice PPP in order to implement load-sharing.

See "Load-Sharing over Synchronous Links" for a detailed example that shows how to enable load-sharing using Solstice PPP.