RE: traceroute question

Jack,

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:58 AM
> To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: traceroute question
>
> Agree, but only if both, switch and server are configured as Etherchannel,
> something that OP did not mention. NIC teaming is not equivalent of
> Etherchannel. You can run LACP on VMware's virtual switch. Windows does
> not support LACP natively but a NIC driver may or may not support it.
>
> But what you do if server with "teamed" interfaces connects to different
> switches ? You cannot use etherchannel and the behaviour will be as I
> described: MAC flapping.
>

Clearly the only thing left to do is a buy a Nexus 5k :) But yeah, then you would want to run the NIC teaming as NFT and not load balanced / dynamic.

-ryan

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Received on Wed Jun 02 2010 - 16:04:30 ART