If you are going LAN to LAN and I assume you are passing through a router because they are different subnets, why not use the routing features on the 6509 and route at potentially 720 Gbps instead of a measly 200 Mbps? FYI, Cisco is end of lifing the...
Well yes, in theory. But in my experience what works wonders in theory often times needs to go back to the lab in practice. Glen, have you ever applied MRTG (or any other traffic grapher) to an etherchannel deployment? We use it between our 3750s and...
I am afraid I am going to have to disagree with Glen on this one. Although I have no reason to doubt his claim that Etherchannel puts little overhead on the CPU a major issue you are faced with is the fact that Etherchannel does not actually load bal...
I have to ask, have you had a lot of issues with fault tolerance in switches? Once I saw one of three transformers blow on a 4006 (it only needs two, the transformer went after a power came back up after a long power outage.)But I have never seen a ...
