[72869] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: COnfiguration Suggestion - Etherchannel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Buxton)
Thu Jul 29 08:08:37 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:07:12 +1000
From: Ben Buxton <bb@cactii.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <410718F1.8030600@inoc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net> uttered the following thing:
>
> >of the links to be used.
> >
> >Use method 2 especially if you mean this to be a L3 handoff to the
> >customer.
>
> What Mike states is correct about the layer2 vs layer3 load balancing:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a008007f648.html
>
> Understanding Load Balancing
> EtherChannel balances traffic load across the links in a channel by
On a related note - is it possible to get a 650x switch to perform flow
based etherchannel load balancing, WITHOUT the switch actually routing
(ie performing purely swithcing functions)??
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Ben Buxton - Random Network Person
