[c-nsp] Crazy Port Channel Question

[Peter Rathlev]

On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 00:06 -0400, Joseph Hardeman wrote:
> Since you can only have 6 port channels on a switch,

Only 6 port channels? That would be a 2950 then, right?

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094714.shtml

> if I want to send the
> same vlans down to bonded ports on vmware servers, can the same Port Channel
> group be assigned to multiple servers?

You wouldn't want that. The point in port-channels is that packets are
distributed among the members in the same group. The simple form of your
example with two servers each with a link member would mean that they
each see ~ 50% packet loss.

-- 
Peter