Hi, We have some bandwidth issues between two sites, experiencing "out discards" on interfaces.
The connection is currently between 2+2 switchports in WS-X6516-GBIC cards and they're connected by ~4 km SM connection with LX GBICs. The redundancy is blocked by STP. To increase bandwidth in a cost effective way we were thinking of just merging these two link in an etherchannel. The only concern is that the two paths aren't exactly the same, and differ in length by about 20%. This is of course not much on such a short stretch, but how does etherchannels handle this? As far as I can understand the loadsharing is strictly deterministic, so out-of-order frames shouldn't be a problem. I assume the switch itself doesn't care about the difference; we plan to use LACP as we do on all other etherchannels. Should we be nervous about this? Anybody running traffic through etherchannels like that and can give thumbs up or down to this? Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
