FEC (Fast Etherchannel) issues

Thu Mar 18 23:34:58 UTC 1999

	Yes, this is what I understand is the case.

	Most people I know that are talking about pushing this much
traffic can use the PA-2FE and load-share, or use the POS OC3 pa.

	- jared

On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:26:46PM +0000, Tony Bourke wrote:
> 
> This looks kinda like the right place for this issue, apologies if not:
> 
> True or False?
> 
> FEC (Fast EtherChannel) is not suibtable for router to router trunking
> because of the way FEC load balances
> 
> I've heard and read in various places (although nothing conclusive) that
> since FEC uses the last portion of a MAC address and hashs it to determine
> which 100 meg link a packet goes.  This is to prevent packets from
> arriving on the other end out of order.
> 
> This would seem to suggest that FEC wouldn't work between routers or
> similar layouts because there is only one MAC address on either end,
> therefor packets would always go over the same link.  
> 
> Anybody have concrete details on this issue?  Does FEC actually determine
> load balancing this say? is ther another way to configure this?  
> 
> I'm not real fond of FEC myself, and would like substantiated evidence in
> an argument against it.

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