bridge-group circuit-group questions

[wgmt]

Hey,

I am setting up a bridge-group in a 3640 router for redundancy and I am considering tying all the interfaces in the bridge-group together into a circuit-group to keep the bandwidth.

Questions: If one interface in a circuit-group fails, will the whole group be blocked, or will the load continue to be distributed among the remaining interfaces?

Is there anything on the switch side I need to configure to set up the circuit-group?

Thanks

BT

[seilsz]

BT,

As long as one port of the circuit group is in the forwarding state, all ports in that circuit group will participate in load distribution regardless of their spanning-tree port states.

Circuit groups are used to load balance across multiple parallel serial lines between a pair of routers.

~Zach