[c-nsp] Gigabit EtherChannel

[Joe Maimon]

Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:

> Jon Lewis <mailto:jlewis at lewis.org> wrote on Wednesday, June 28, 2006
>>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..
> 
> 	oli
> 

Wouldnt spreading the load across multiple vip4-80 effectively increase 
the available throughput? SO in that sense, yes this would be a 
performance benefit.