>The 6500s have a feature called "Virtual Switching System (VSS) 1440" that >allows multiple switches to appear as one. (Btw, IEEE 802.3ad requires >awareness of what's going on on all the links. This isn't a limitation of >the VSWITCH.)
We operate in that way and found a major drawback: The physical switches operate on the same-box principle, meaning what comes in on one box is sent out over LA members on that box. There is no attempt at load balancing by forwarding over the ISL to the other box and out to LA members on that other box. We ended up with three links on one box and the fourth as failover on the other box. Best regards, Pieter Harder [email protected] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 Brabant Water N.V. Postbus 1068 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch http://www.brabantwater.nl Handelsregister: 16005077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
