[c-nsp] Beyond 1 Gbps

[Marko Milivojevic]

Are these links L2 or L3? If they are L3, yoiu could do load sharing easily ...

Marko.

Joe Loiacono wrote:
> We have a 6509 GigE link that is becoming saturated. The 6509 connects to 
> a Juniper M10 and there is a firewall between them. In this situation, a 
> migration to 10GigE looks too expensive.
> 
> So one would think EtherChannel. However, now both the firewall and the 
> Juniper have to be able to do EtherChannel (I've seen the recent 
> discussion on Fast Ether Channel vs. IEEE 802.3ad.)
> 
> Anyone have any experience in getting past 1GigE in a mixed environment 
> like this?
> 
> PS - this configuration is fully redundant (2 each: 6509s, f/ws, Junipers) 
> and the backup GigE is unused - could we somehow employ it? (The first 
> concern here though is asymmetric routing and stateful firewalls)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
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