Say you are load balancing across the port members of an EtherChannel based on source MACs. Does it actually use multiple interfaces at the same time? Or does it treat it all as one port and pick an interface to use for each frame?
Great explanation! I'm assuming it doesn't use round robin load balancing because if packets arrived out of order it would place the burden on the endpoint processing those packets to assemble them correctly (which could net worse performance).
"You mean does it act as though it is a single interface or does it in effect see all the individual interfaces in the port channel ? "Exactly."My understanding is that if there safe multiple flows it can make indeed use multiple links at the same ti...
"EtherChannel frame distribution uses a Cisco-proprietary hashing algorithm. The algorithm is deterministic; if you use the same addresses and session information, you always hash to the same port in the channel. This method prevents out-of-order pac...
