Strictly speaking load balancing is not feature of fast etherchannel. Fast
etherchannel can only perform load sharing of traffic between bundled links.
It looks at last bit (or last two bits on four port bundle) of mac
addresses, performs xor and uses one link for entire traffic flow between
that source and destination.
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Tomaz Klemencic
Hermes Plus, d.d., PE Celje
Kersnikova 19, 3000 Celje
+386-3-4284022
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From: xndr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 11:43 PM
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Subject: Re: Fast EtherChannel question
Hi!
> Because I can't find definite answers in the material I have, I wanted
> to post it in a form of a question and see what you all think.
> What are not features in fast etherchannel.
> a-load balancing
> b-full duplex
> c-up to six interfaces bundled
> d-hsrp
> e-fault tolerant
c & d,
because EtherChannel improves both performance and availability. It gives
additional bandwidth, by bandling up to 4 (2x or 4x) continuous for
"simple" switches,
or up to 8x non-coninuous on Catalyst 6000 both FEC or GEC interfaces,
or 12 or 24 FEC on Catalyst 5000 and 5500 Series.
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WBW, xander
CCNP+Voice, CCIE very soon :-)
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