Re: VLAN Loadbalancing

From: ehiwe peter (ccie.in.nigeria@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2009 - 19:12:08 ARST


If u want failover is , then the first is not an option.
two and three can provide load balancing and failover

On 1/2/09, John Edom <jedom123@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If i have two switches SW1 and SW2 connected with each other through two
> trunks on port 1 and 2. lets support i create 4 vlans: 10,20,30,40. Now I
> want to load balance vlans on both links in a way that vlans 10 and 20 use
> port 1 and vlan 30 and 40 use port 2
>
> SW1----------- (2 links)-----------SW2
> vlans: 10,20,30,40
>
> There three ways in mind,
>
> First: Allow vlan 10,20 on port 1 and Allow vlan 30,40 on port 2 on both
> switches using "switchport tru allow vlan xxx"
>
> Second: Configure one switch root for all vlans and then loadbalance using
> cost (on non-root) or port-priority (on root)
>
> Third: Loadbalance using cost or port-priortiy on all both trunk ports
> regardless of who is root bridge.
>
> Please tell me as per scenario which one is valid way to do it
>
> Regards
>
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