Does anyone use "ip packing" (M3P)? If so I'm interested to see what sort's of experiences people have with regards the different settings. Do you need a beefy CPU to run compress-all? If so what's the minimum? I using compress-all do it add any latency? Does compress-headers make a great deal of difference and again does it introduce any latency? We are looking to add ip packing on our EoIP tunnels but want to see if it's a good idea before we try it

In adition to this, we will be bonding eoip interfaces together so for the best effect, should ip packing be enabled on each eoip interface or the bonded interface?

I would think that a single "packing" would make more sense..

It you pack eack EOIP then you have to unpack each packet before it can be re-assembled from the bonding group.

I would think that packet compresion then distribution accross the bonding would be less load then distribution then compresion (multiple threads).


Just my two cents worth...

Craig