It will work fine if you have a good modern router. Consider this; all evenly grouped LAGs are odd in their failed conditions.
-Ben > On May 15, 2018, at 8:28 AM, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 15/May/18 17:20, Jared Mauch wrote: >> >> Much of this depends on the hardware, software and what hashing is used >> inbound >> outbound traffic directions, etc. >> >> It will likely work the way you expect, but one may be warmer than the other >> if >> traffic ends up overloading a single bucket in the hash. > > We haven't had a major issue when loading traffic over even or odd > links. If you have decent hardware and software, it should all be fine, > particularly if your traffic is all or mostly IP. > > If you've got non-IP traffic in there, and your box cannot look into the > payload to determine entropy, then things could get interesting. But > this will happen even when you have even links... it's not anything > specific to how many member links you have in the LAG, but rather, the > router's need to maintain per-flow load balancing with limited > information beyond Layer 2 data. > > That said, an even number of links just leaves the warm & fuzzies turned > on :-)... > > Mark.
