[c-nsp] uBR7246VXR - etherchannel outbound load balancing ?

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Wed Feb 5 03:57:13 EST 2014


On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 10:45:54 AM Mikael 
Abrahamsson wrote:

> I did a TAC case on a 7200 with FE a lot of years back,
> and the conclusion was that etherchannel load balancing
> didn't work very well.
> 
> I would recommend you to use ECMP instead (have two links
> with separate IPs on them) and see if that works better.

LACP isn't supported on the 7200 (tried in IOS 15S). So I 
wouldn't recommend attempting LAG's on the 7200.

As suggested, run IP on two links and have the same IGP 
metric for load balancing + BFD for early link failure 
signaling.

Mark.
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