[j-nsp] Using LACP/802.3ad between M20 and Cisco Cat6500

[Piltrafilla]

Jared,

Thank you for your fast reply. :)

I think that I will use IP src or dst based balancing because maybe a
layer-4 based balancing could impact highly on memory/cpu.

Best regards,

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:50:00 -0400, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:30:05PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:21:53PM +0200, Piltrafilla wrote:
> > > Hi dudes,
> > >
> > > I would like to set up an LACP/802.3ad aggregate of 2 GigabitEthernet
> > > ports between a Juniper M20 and a Cisco Catalyst 6500.
> > >
> > > I have seen on a thread on this list on how to deal with the configuration:
> > > http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/juniper-nsp/msg03260.html
> > >
> > > My question goes beyond the configuration. I would like to know which
> > > parameters could be used to balance the frames on layer2 (both on
> > > Juniper and Cisco side): src/dst ethernet mac addresses, 2-tuple ip
> > > address, 4-tuples ip addresses and ports?
> 
>        Oh, here's the cisco side:
> 
> Router(config)#port-channel load-balance ?
>  dst-ip        Dst IP Addr
>  dst-mac       Dst Mac Addr
>  dst-port      Dst TCP/UDP Port
>  mpls          Load Balancing for MPLS packets
>  src-dst-ip    Src XOR Dst IP Addr
>  src-dst-mac   Src XOR Dst Mac Addr
>  src-dst-port  Src-Dst TCP/UDP Port
>  src-ip        Src IP Addr
>  src-mac       Src Mac Addr
>  src-port      Src TCP/UDP Port
> 
> 
> > >
> > > The link is point to point so it has a /30 (2 IP/MAC addresses pairs
> > > per side), so a MAC based balancing won't help.
> > >
> > > Anyone has faced this problem?
> >
> >
> >       Try this:
> >
> > chassis {
> >     aggregated-devices {
> >         ethernet {
> >             device-count 1;
> >         }
> >     }
> > }
> > routing-options {
> >     forwarding-table {
> >         export [ load-balance ];
> >     }
> > }
> > policy-options {
> >     policy-statement load-balance {
> >         then {
> >             load-balance per-packet;
> >         }
> >     }
> > }
> > forwarding-options {
> >     hash-key {
> >         family inet {
> >             layer-3;
> >             layer-4;
> >         }
> >     }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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