[c-nsp] Load balancing on Portchan.

[Chuck Church]

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From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of mb at adv.gcomm.com.au
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 4:59 AM
To: Peter Rathlev
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Load balancing on Portchan.



>Traffic is a mix of inet/vrf...the main culprit is a backup service 
>that replicates basically 100% of the time at whatever bandwidth is 
>allowed...potentially moving there vlan to a dedicated trunk would 

If that backup service is using only one flow (src/dest tcp/udp port),
there's probably no load balancing that will split that up, and one link
will always be saturated.  But at least the other will get used.  Dedicating
one link to the backup's VLAN might be best.

Chuck