I am glad I asked. Something wasn't sitting right in my gut. It's nice to see real life example to verify my concern.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:52:41AM -0400, Jay Nakamura wrote: >> Some hosts/OS can do load balancing between NICs. If a host has two >> NICs connected to two switches,(the two switches are connected >> together) and load balancing between them, switch will see the same >> source MAC from two ports. > > Don't do this. > > If the ports go to two different switches (that cannot do cross-chassis > etherchannel), use active/passive bundling, not load-sharing. > > gert > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > //www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected] > fax: +49-89-35655025 [email protected] > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
