Michael is correct. About the only thing you can do is set the STP
priorities on the ports differently for different VLANs, so that VLAN 10
traffic prefers Bplink A and VLAN 20 prefers uplink B. This would be a sort
of manual load balancing.
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> if all the ports on access layer switch is in the same VLAN, you can not
do that.
> Spantree will only allow one path forwarding packets.
>
> Michael Yu
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> Alldread AK2 Robert J wrote:
>
> > I would like some opinions on load balancing across (2) 6509 switches
using
> > trunk ports.
> >
> > Here is the scenario...
> >
> > 1 switch at the access layer, 2 switches and the distribution layer. The
> > access layer switch has a GIG trunk link to each of the 2 dist layer
> > switches. How would I implement equal-cost load balancing in a round
robin
> > fashion from the access layer switch to each of the 2 dist layer
switches.
> >
> > I would like to do this on a packet by packet level. CCO has some good
tips,
> > but only for load balancing from 1 switch to 1 switch, not 1 switch to 2
> > switches.
> >
> > Any advice and help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Skin-e
> >
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