From: Mohammad Saeed (mzsaeed@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 20:36:25 ART
Hi Paz,
The examples that you gave for using dst-ip, src-ip and mac are very
good. But would you please give an example where you would use
src-dst-mac, src-dst-ip?
Regards,
Mohammad Saeed
On 2/12/07, Fabrice Paz <fabrice.paz@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Well,
>
> I think this is more related with what kind of traffic is running over the
> port-channel as I have undertood it.
>
> Imagine those two scenarios;
>
> 1) You have a port-channel (four interfaces in the bundle) going to a server
> and this server is talking to four hosts. If you do src-mac or src-ip you
> will use only one physical interface in the buddle since your traffic is
> coming from only one device
>
> 2) You have a vlan with four hosts talking to one server via a port-channel
> (four interfaces in the bundle). If you use dst-mac or dst-ip you will again
> use only one physical interface in the buddle since all the traffic is going
> to the same host.
>
> The example is a bit exagerated but I think you get the idea, it's really
> depend on your traffic pattern.
>
>
> Any more comments?
>
> Fab
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12/02/07, deji500@hotmail.com <deji500@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi GS,
> >
> > I do not fully understand the difference(s) between port-channel
> > load-balance src-mac and src-ip. When i say that i do not understand, I mean
> > in what situations would each of them apply. I know that src-mac was the
> > default for the 3550 and the other option is dst-mac but the 3560 has
> > src-mac, src-ip, src-dst-mac, src-dst-ip, dst-mac, and dst-ip. in what
> > situations would you use src-mac and in what situations would you use
> > src-ip?
> >
> > Any comments would be appreciated.
> >
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