Multilink ppp and E3

my company has 3 major sites, we wish to configure channelised E3 along with multilink so that we have 3 different links to 3 different remote sites so that there traffic travels across seperatly. the 1st will have 8 E1s bundled together for one site the 2nd will have 4 E1s bundled for the 2nd destination, 2 E1s will be bundled for the last destination and the remaining 2 E1s will be used fpr back up .
Is this possible ? How? is it also version dependent i m workin on 12.2 IOS on cisco 7206 VXR. Please help urgently.
Thanks.

hi,
here you can creat three different MLPPP interface and you can add the E1 link as per your requirement to the appropriate group... so here in first MLPPP you will add 8E1
in second MLPPP you will add 4E1 and in
third you will add 2E1... and now you want to configure other two E1 for back up off all this three then you can go for Distributed MLPPP as given in the privious post...
"The Distributed Multilink Point to Point Protocol (dMLP) feature allows you to combine full or fractional T1/E1 lines in a line card (VIP, FlexWAN) on a Cisco 7500 or 7600 series router into a bundle that has the combined bandwidth of multiple links. You use a distributed MLP Bundle to do this. A user can choose the number of bundles in a router and the number of links per bundle. This allows the user to increase the bandwidth of network links beyond that of a single T1/E1 line without the need to purchase a T3 line. In non-dMLP, all of the packets are switched by the Route Processor (RP); therefore, this implementation impacts performance of the RP, with high CPU utilization for only a few T1/E1 lines running MLP. With dMLP, the total number of bundles that can be handled on the router is increased, as the data path is handled and limited by line card CPU and memory. dMLP allows you to bundle fractional T1/E1, starting from DS0 (64 Kbps) onwards."
Hope this will help you
regards
Devang

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i got a situation here and hope someone will be able to help me out. Recently i configured a PPP multilink and am facing some issues after that.
Issue 1:
There seems to be lot of input error on multilink interface (150 errors in 40 mins)
Issue 2:
when any of the multilink member interface goes down (all other links are active), am getting packrt drops and request timed out when i ping my other end multi link interface atleast for some 30 sec , after which my response is ok.
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no ip mroute-cache
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END A #sh int multilink 5
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Hardware is multilink group interface
Description: ***Multilink to End B ***
Internet address is 192.26.0.162/30
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 320 Kbit, DLY 100000 usec,
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Se2/2, since 20:04:45, last rcvd seq 0AE5E2, 160 weight, 152 frag size
Se2/3, since 20:04:07, last rcvd seq 0AE5E3, 160 weight, 152 frag size
Se2/5, since 20:03:24, last rcvd seq 0AE5E4, 160 weight, 152 frag size
Se2/1, since 19:57:12, last rcvd seq 0AE5E5, 160 weight, 152 frag size
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R6#
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