Hello,
we're testing a couple of new low-end cisco devices to use at customer sites and found out that the new Cisco886 has no support of PPP multilink, it simply means eg, that we can't use both ISDN chanells.
here is the short output:
yourname# sh ver
Cisco IOS Software, C880 Software (C880DATA-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 15.1(3)T, RELEASE SOFTWARE ( c1) Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c) 1986-2010 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 16-Nov-10 04:53 by prod_rel_team
ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 12.4(22r)YB5, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
yourname uptime is 1 minute
System returned to ROM by reload at 15:21:37 UTC Wed Mar 2 2011 System image file is "flash:c880data-universalk9-mz.151-3.T.bin"
Last reload type: Normal Reload
Last reload reason: Reload Command
!
interface BRI0
no ip address
encapsulation hdlc
dialer pool-member 10
isdn switch-type basic-net3
isdn termination multidrop
!
interface Dialer10
mtu 1456
ip address negotiated
no ip redirects
no ip proxy-arp
encapsulation ppp
load-interval 30
dialer pool 10
dialer idle-timeout 10
dialer string 080099999
dialer load-threshold 30 outbound
no cdp enable
yourname(config)#int di 10
yourname(config-if)#ppp ?
accm Set initial Async Control Character Map
accounting Set PPP network accounting method
acfc Options for HDLC Address & Control Field Compression
authentication Set PPP link authentication method
authorization Set PPP network authorization method
bcp Set BCP negotiation options
bridge Enable PPP bridge translation
callback Set PPP link callback option
caller Caller option when no CLID is available
chap Set CHAP authentication parameters
direction Override default PPP direction
disconnect-cause Set disconnect-cause code
dnis Authentication via DNIS before LCP
eap Set EAP authentication parameters
encrypt Enable PPP encryption
ipcp Set IPCP negotiation options
iphc Set IPCP Header Compression control options
lcp PPP LCP configuration
link Set miscellaneous link parameters
loopback PPP loopback options
max-bad-auth Allow multiple authentication failures
max-configure Number of conf-reqs sent before assuming peer is unable to
respond
max-failure Number of conf-naks sent before assuming configuration is
not converging
max-terminate Number of term-reqs sent before assuming peer is unable to
respond
ms-chap Set MS-CHAP authentication parameters
ms-chap-v2 Set MS-CHAP-V2 authentication parameters
mtu PPP MTU configuration
ncp Set NCP link parameters
pap Set PAP authentication parameters
pfc Options for Protocol Field Compression
quality Set parameters related to Link Quality Monitoring (LQM)
timeout Set PPP timeout parameters
yourname(config-if)#ppp multilink
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
we're now in contact with our support partner, but they haven't opened a TAC case yet, they are trying to convince us that this is a normal. Command reference says that (of course) the command "ppp multilink" exists and there is no any hardware restrictions or limitations.
Is it a bug or a feature of cisco886 ?
