[c-nsp] Basic Etherchannel Question

Andrew Miehs andrew at 2sheds.de
Sat Jan 15 06:25:07 EST 2011


On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk> wrote:

> We always use LACP, since an unconditional port-channel connected to
> something that's not a port-channel might lead to problems. I view it a
> little like GE auto-negotiation -- I can't see a reason for not using
> it.
>
> Actually, one reason for _not_ using LACP if you have 6500-VSSes.
You may end up with traffic traversing the VSL connections which could
otherwise be avoided.

Regards

Andrew


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