MAE West

Mon Jul 14 07:01:30 UTC 1997

At 11:38 PM 7/13/97 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote:
>As Lance Tatman pointed out, load-balancing only works between
>circuits joining the same two switches. This would certainly be a
>factor in planning what kind of wide-area connectivity to use to join
>two groups of switches. A single 400Mb/s aggregate might perform much
>better than a pair of 200Mb/s aggregates.

	Better performance, but worse reliability?

	The single 400Mb/s is, after all, a single point of failure, no?

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