[c-nsp] Gigabit EtherChannel

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Jon Lewis <mailto:jlewis at lewis.org> wrote on Thursday, June 29, 2006
1:53 PM:

> 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. 

right.

> But there isn't, is there?

no, there is not..

	oli