Re: The most efficient Etherchannel load balancing

From: Marc La Porte (marc.a.laporte@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2007 - 04:41:40 ART


Using L4 loadbalancing will provide a more even distribution over the two
channels

On 6/30/07, louis john <west_coast@inbox.com> wrote:
>
> I believe there should be a way, now I am looking for the most effecient
> one though it can be not efficient by itself.
>
> the following can be supported by the 3750 :
>
> SW1(config)#port-channel load-balance ?
> dst-ip Dst IP Addr
> dst-mac Dst Mac Addr
> src-dst-ip Src XOR Dst IP Addr
> src-dst-mac Src XOR Dst Mac Addr
> src-ip Src IP Addr
> src-mac Src Mac Addr
>
>
>
>
> SW3(config)#port-channel load-balance ?
> dst-mac Dst Mac Addr
> src-mac Src Mac Addr
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mikraus@cisco.com
> > Sent: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:30:11 -0400
> > To: west_coast@inbox.com, ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: RE: The most efficient Etherchannel load balancing
> >
> > As I'm reading this, I'd say this is a trick question. Packets between
> > two IP hosts always use the same port for packet transmission. So, it
> > wouldn't really matter which method is chosen.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > louis john
> > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:04 AM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: The most efficient Etherchannel load balancing
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> >
> > I have the following two scenarios and I want to know the most efficient
> > load balancing method:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > HOST A--------3570-0/13----------------0/13--3550--------HOST B
> > -0/14----------------0/14-
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > HOST A--------3570--0/13----------------0/13-3570--------HOST B
> > -0/14----------------0/14-
> >
> >
> >
> > As you can guess, HOST A and HOST B are fixed, there will be no more
> > than one host on each side, now both of the hosts are one the same vlan.
> >
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