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Re: [LARTC] bandwidth aggregation between 2 hosts in the same subnet

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Subject: Re: [LARTC] bandwidth aggregation between 2 hosts in the same subnet
From: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists@ralfgross.de>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:05:33 +0200
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Paul Zirnik schrieb:
> This is why i sayed you need two different switches. With only one the switch 
> will allways send only to one port, because he knows the MAC address
> and will not balance traffic on two or more ports with the same MAC address
> as destination. Etherchannel has no balancing algo it is desinged for one to 
> many connections not for 1 to 1. With two switches this is not true and the 
> traffic will utilize both lines even for a 1 on 1 connection.

Ah, you mean no Port Channels at all. This would then more be like a
direct crossed link?

Ralf
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