[114111] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10-GigE for servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri May 1 14:16:14 2009
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:15:58 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Alex Thurlow <alex@blastro.com> said:
> As long as it's not a single connection that you're looking to get over
> 1Gb, etherchannel should actually work. It uses a hash based on (I
> believe) source and destination IP and port, so it should roughly
> balance connections between the servers.
That depends on the devices on each end. For example, some switches can
only hash on MAC addresses, some can look at IPs, and some can look at
ports.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
