load balncing

[prashantrecon]

Hi,

I have configured etherchannel(2 link bundled) between switch (2960 ) with load balnace metod souce-dst mac.

So how does the data get disturbed among the links.when above method is set.

In case of L3 switch it use XOR mechanism when set load balance method as src-dst -ip.

[InayathUlla Sharieff]

 Layer 2 packets are distributed on XOR computation of source and destination MAC address and Layer 3 packets based on XOR source and destination IP address.

HTH

Regards

Inayath.

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[prashantrecon]

Thanks,

Could you please elaborate more for srd-dst mac by taking an example.

[Joseph W. Doherty]

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src-dst-mac uses both the frame's source and destination MACs for selecting a link.  src-dst-ip combine uses both the packet's source and destination IP for selecting a link.

As often one end is the same device, e.g. a gateway MAC or a local LAN host, using the combination of src-dst, often offers some variability to the hash.

Both generally "fail", when there are multiple flows between a pair of hosts.  For that situation, some devices can include L4 port numbering as part of the hash.