From: Roman Rodichev (roman@iementor.com)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2007 - 17:52:31 ART
1. The receiving end of the etherchannel doesn't care about load-balancing
capabilities/settings of the sending side of the etherchannel.
2. The load balancing method only applies to frames exiting the etherchannel
interface (sending, not receiving)
Think of flows in each direction
Many hosts -> server: decide the load-balancing method on SW1
Server -> many hosts: decide the load-balancing method on SW2
They don't have to be the same.
Roman Rodichev
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Rich
Collins
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 3:07 PM
To: groupstudy
Subject: Basics- Etherchannel load-balancing
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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