Bonding with Cisco IOS
After a few nights of meddling with my configuration, the following setup is working well for me. I would like to share it with the community.
Perquisites
- Ask support for a unique IP address for the dialer interface of each of your ADSL lines
- You will also need a static block for your routing IP address and any external clients, you may also use one of these addresses for NAT (more on that later).
- Configure Clueless to route your static block down each of the ADSL lines
My Setup
- Three ADSL lines provided by AAISP
- Cisco 2821 running IOS 15.1
- Three WIC1-ADSL and an NM-ESW-16 switch module.
- Internal ADSL interfaces allow me to run the setup in PPPoA mode. Modify your dialers for PPPoE if you are using external bridges.
== Configuring your Dialer interfaces
interface ATM0/0/0 description 01234567890 no ip address no atm ilmi-keepalive hold-queue 224 in pvc 0/38 encapsulation aal5mux ppp dialer dialer pool-member 1 ! ! interface ATM0/1/0 description 01234567891 no ip address no atm ilmi-keepalive dsl noise-margin -2 hold-queue 224 in pvc 0/38 encapsulation aal5mux ppp dialer dialer pool-member 2 ! ! interface ATM0/2/0 description 01234567892 no ip address no atm ilmi-keepalive hold-queue 224 in pvc 0/38 encapsulation aal5mux ppp dialer dialer pool-member 3 ! ! interface Dialer0 ip address negotiated ip virtual-reassembly in encapsulation ppp dialer pool 1 ppp chap hostname <yourAAISPuser>@a.1 ppp chap password 0 <yourPasword> no cdp enable ! interface Dialer1 ip address negotiated ip virtual-reassembly in encapsulation ppp dialer pool 2 ppp chap hostname <yourAAISPuser>@a.2 ppp chap password 0 <yourPassword> no cdp enable ! interface Dialer2 ip address negotiated ip virtual-reassembly in encapsulation ppp dialer pool 3 ppp chap hostname <yourAAISPuser>@a.3 ppp chap password 0 <yourPassword> no cdp enable !