From: John (jgarrison1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Sat May 03 2008 - 09:15:07 ART
Doesn't port channel load balance based on source mac by default? If thats
so all he needs to do is load balance based on dest mac on SW1 right?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Saad" <joseph.samir.saad@gmail.com>
To: "ccie champ" <ccie.champ@gmail.com>
Cc: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: Port channel Load Balancing
> on SW1, you are load balancing traffic returning from the Server to hosts.
> Assuming all are in VLAN X, then SW1 I'd configure load-balance based on
> Dst
> Mac.
>
> However, on SW2, you ideally want to load balance traffic destined to
> server, then on SW2 I'd configure load-balance based on Src Mac or IP.
>
> Load balancing configuration are locally significant and impact the
> traffic
> one way only (while exiting the switch via port channel).
>
> Joseph Saad
> #20243.
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, ccie champ <ccie.champ@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all GS experts,
>>
>> 1. There is a server connected to SW1 and there is a vlan X on SW2 where
>> multiple hosts exist
>> 2. Both of them are connected using Layer 2 port-channel
>>
>> Incase, if users in VLAN X access server resources very frequently and we
>> need to enable load balancing on port-channel
>>
>> I feel enabling *"dst mac"* based load balancing on *SW1* is just enough
>>
>> Any comments, am i right?
>>
>>
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