[c-nsp] General switching question regarding load balancing host
Jay Nakamura
zeusdadog at gmail.com
Fri Sep 17 11:52:41 EDT 2010
Some hosts/OS can do load balancing between NICs. If a host has two
NICs connected to two switches,(the two switches are connected
together) and load balancing between them, switch will see the same
source MAC from two ports. How does a switch decide which ports to
put in the forwarding table? Would it switch back and forth every
time there is a packet? Is there any negative effect on the switch
when that happens? Is this platform dependent?
Sorry for the generalized question.
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