COnfiguration Suggestion - Etherchannel

Wed Jul 28 02:53:56 UTC 2004

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 at inoc.net