Etherchannels work fine as long as the traffic patterns equally balance traffic across the interfaces. That may or may not be what you want depending on what you are doing with the firewall/IDS systems. I'd take a hard look at Etherchannels before forklifting and upgrading to 10Gb, since they work fine in most scenarios.
Phil On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Joe Loiacono wrote: > We have a saturating 1Gbps link (actually a redundant pair) and > would like > to upgrade as economically as possible. Two options come to mind right > away: 2Gbps ether-channel, and 10Gbps. Because the 10Gbps option > requires > a fork-lift upgrade it is currently off the table. > > Does anyone have experience with ether-channel when you throw in > redundant > firewalls and IDS's? > > What is the most common way to pass this (perplexing) boundary? > > Thanks, > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
