[nsp] EtherChannel

[Olav Langeland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swmike at swm.pp.se] 
> Sent: 27. november 2003 14:10
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] EtherChannel
> 
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Olav Langeland wrote:
> 
> > I understand that EtherChannel is not "real" bundling, but that you 
> > atleast achieve load balancing and redundancy in the link. 
> Does anyone 
> > have experience with it in similar setup?
> 
> Some platforms will only loadbalance per destination MAC 
> address. Not very useful on router-router links.

The part with XOR'ing and what could be load balanced or not went a bit
over my head, I have not read the finer details about EtherChannel
loadbalancing. Question still is, will it work? Setup is Cisco 7513 <-
EtherChannel -> Catalyst switch with 2 or more FastEthernet ports. I
don't want to do anything fancy, just to make the total bandwidth
available for the router more than 100Mbit, even though if one stream is
limited to max 100Mbit.
Will this work efficiently and can it be used in an ISP environment?

regards
Olav Langeland - olav.langeland at activeisp.com