Etherchannel "Load Balancing" Switches

Fred.Bateman_at_usdoj.gov
Date: 08/10/04

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    We need to get more Ethernet traffic in/out of
    some of our servers (mainly TSM - but not exclusively).

    Etherchannel is the most attractive
    method for a number of reasons.

    The Etherchannel implementation on AIX supports
    "per packet" load balancing or "per flow" load
    distribution. (I refuse to call "per flow" load
    balancing.) 802.3ad on AIX only supports various
    "per flow" load distributing methods.

    Does anyone know of any GbE switches which support
    "per packet" load balancing Etherchannel?

    Fred

    P.S. Yes, I am aware this can cause out of order
    packet delivery. ALL the traffic will be TCP
    and I do not think the out of order packets
    will be a problem.

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