Hello, I have been reading the threads on MLPPP. From what I could dig up there does seems to be a couple of little glitches? But cant see much posts since the last release!!
Can anyone say if it’s reliable enough to use a backbone for a live service?
So your router will connect to the ISPs PPP with a MLPPP session? What is the Internet service type? What is the ISPs router?
You could test if it’s connecting properly. There is ‘active connections’ entry in the PPPoE Status as well as pppoe debug log that can be enabled from logging.
Post test results here and I could assist you a little.
There are still bugs in the MLPPP of Mikrotik especially during re-connection of a failed mlppp bundle, it does something weird about tearing down a dead bundle and re-creating a new one, it does it incorrectly causing you to have more active links than actual real-configured links. (it seems to create multiple links on top of links)
Depends on what your production enviroment is, but overall my experience with MLPPP and RouterOS has been:
When its working it works good
When something goes wrong (DSL modem drops, ISP has an issue, etc.) you can almost assure yourself only a full reboot will bring proper functionality back.
See: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/mlppp-has-more-active-links-than-configured-links/25913/1
Cheers
Thanks for the info. Thats pretty much what I gathered. I guess netwatch and some simple script can probably solve the above issue?