[72847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: COnfiguration Suggestion - Etherchannel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Tue Jul 27 22:55:02 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:53:56 -0400
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
To: "Richard J. Sears" <rsears@adnc.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040727192308.D925.RSEARS@adnc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Richard J. Sears wrote:
> I am building out a customer that needs more than 1000Mbps of sustained
> bandwidth. Because of the customer equipment, etherchannel was suggested
> as the means to do this (it is compatible with this customers equipment).
>
> I am running a 6509 with Dual SUP720's in IOS mode only (no cat software).
>
> It was pointed out that there are really two different ways to configure
> the switch - I guess my question is which is the best (lowest overhead,
> etc)? Hopefully someone out there has been down this road before.
I don't think there is really any performance difference in the two
you've suggested. In one you're required to create a layer2 VLAN with a
Layer3 hop on the VLAN itnerface, in the other you're just setting up a
Layer3 only interface to the customer. (no vlans required) If you don't
need a Layer2 connection to the customers network, then go with the
Layer3 only option.
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Robert Blayzor
INOC, LLC
rblayzor@inoc.net
