From: Tarun Pahuja (pahujat@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2007 - 17:36:27 ART
Rich,
The choice depends on a lot of factors namely, what platform?
what version of IOS? Load balancing features supported and most
important of all, what are you trying to achieve.
For example, If you are backing up to a server and would like to
perfom etherchannel load balancing in intermediate switches it would
not be a good idea to use the destination Mac or IP, it would be more
optimal to use source ip address or Mac. Basically, the IOS uses a
Hashing algorithm to find out the port it should send the packet to,
similar inputs to the hashing algorithm would give the same port
number.
HTH,
Tarun
On 11/3/07, Rich Collins <nilsi2002@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After reading some of the documentation I think that I am still missing some
> basics. For example:
>
> many hosts --SW1 ===== Sw2 ---server
> (on same VLAN)
>
> With 3550's I suppose you would want src-mac on SW1 and then do you need the
> reciprocal on SW2 (dst-mac)? Also a big question - what about a 3560 on
> one side and a 3550 on the other. What type of mixed matrices would work or
> are suggested? i.e src-mac and dst-ip
>
> thanks
> Rich
>
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