[c-nsp] Gigabit EtherChannel

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:

>> If the bandwidth is (or becomes) much higher than what a single GEIP
>> can handle, wouldn't it be a bad idea unless the goal is just
>> redundancy?
>> Won't the single GEIP+ on its own handle about as much traffic as a
>> GEIP & GEIP+ etherchannel can handle?
>
> I did not talk about performance of the whole thing. a GEIP or GEIP+ on
> a 7500 will not do line-rate (given IMIX) anyway, so I assumed that this
> is targeted for redundancy reason, rather than load..  I guess you are
> right, a GEIP+ by itself will likely provide similar performance
> compared to a GEIP&GEIP+ channel at the end..

Unless there were some way to manually influence the weighting (at both 
ends) and get the GEIP+ channel member to handle 2/3 of the traffic and 
the GEIP to handle the remaining 1/3.  But there isn't, is there?

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