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Re: 10-GigE for servers


From: Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:15:58 -0500

Once upon a time, Alex Thurlow <alex () blastro com> said:
As long as it's not a single connection that you're looking to get over 
1Gb, etherchannel should actually work.  It uses a hash based on (I 
believe) source and destination IP and port, so it should roughly 
balance connections between the servers.

That depends on the devices on each end.  For example, some switches can
only hash on MAC addresses, some can look at IPs, and some can look at
ports.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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