On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Phil Mayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Just for completeness: under OSes like Linux, there are a few weird/esoteric > NIC load-balancing methods that *claim* to work - usually where all the > traffic comes in a single NIC, but is load-balanced out of multiple NICs > with the source MAC address of each egress NIC, not the attached layer3 > interface. I would avoid like the plague and stick to active/passive. > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >
We have found the various TLB/ALB NIC teaming methods to work very well, on both Linux and Windows servers. You get two MACs active outbound, one MAC inbound (due to the fact that ARP will only remember the last IP/MAC mapping.) Round-robin should not be used, nor a static 802.3ad style trunk, due to the MAC flapping issues that have already been mentioned. Tim:> -- Tim:> _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
