Re: Switch load balancing

From: Danshtr (danshtr@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2007 - 06:10:33 ART


There are some new protocols in draft, which will make SPT work little
like OSPF. A "routing protocol" will advertise mac addresses much like
OSPF advertises networks.

For example: Link State Protocol Over Mac Addresses

On 2/3/07, graham@cisco-engineer.com <graham@cisco-engineer.com> wrote:
> Hi group,
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> I'm working on a question which asks to load balance between two switch
> endpoints 1 and 4
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> The layout is
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> ----------------- SW3------------
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> SW1< >SW4
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> ----------------SW2--------------
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> Question in its self is not hard but the sting is, where you have a choice
> you must prefer source/destination ip Balancing?
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> Now the load balance method that came to mind was a Layer 3 etherchannel and
> port-channel load balancing, but I can't see how that would fit in this
> scenario? Should I ignore the bit at the end which stipulates where you have
> a choice?
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> Thanks
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> Graham
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Best regards,
Dan


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