Catalyst 3560 Port-Channel Load-Balance

From: Antonio Soares (amsoares@netcabo.pt)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2007 - 22:00:39 ART

Hello group,

This is a feature that i'm not confortable with. I see too many options and
i don't know exactly which one to apply for a given scenario. Besides that,
it will affect differently 3 types of traffic: non-IP, IPv4 and IPv6.

Here's the command and options:

port-channel load-balance {dst-ip | dst-mac | src-dst-ip | src-dst-mac |
src-ip | src-mac}

Let's say we have these 4 hipotetical scenarios:

A) 1 Host---CatA====Etherchannel====CatB----1 Host

B) 1 Host---CatA====Etherchannel====CatB----1000 Hosts

C) 1000 Hosts---CatA====Etherchannel====CatB----1 Host

D) 1000 Hosts---CatA====Etherchannel====CatB----1000 Host

In CatA's perspective, which option best fits each scenario ? For
simplicity, assume IPv4 only traffic.

Thanks,
Antonio

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