COnfiguration Suggestion - Etherchannel

Ben Buxton bb at cactii.net
Thu Jul 29 12:07:12 UTC 2004


Robert Blayzor <rblayzor at 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)??

-- 
Ben Buxton - Random Network Person




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