Well,
I think this is more related with what kind of traffic is running over the
port-channel as I have undertood it.
Imagine those two scenarios;
1) You have a port-channel (four interfaces in the bundle) going to a server
and this server is talking to four hosts. If you do src-mac or src-ip you
will use only one physical interface in the buddle since your traffic is
coming from only one device
2) You have a vlan with four hosts talking to one server via a port-channel
(four interfaces in the bundle). If you use dst-mac or dst-ip you will again
use only one physical interface in the buddle since all the traffic is going
to the same host.
The example is a bit exagerated but I think you get the idea, it's really
depend on your traffic pattern.
Any more comments?
Fab
On 12/02/07, deji500@xxxxxxxxxxx <deji500@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi GS,
>
> I do not fully understand the difference(s) between port-channel
> load-balance src-mac and src-ip. When i say that i do not understand, I mean
> in what situations would each of them apply. I know that src-mac was the
> default for the 3550 and the other option is dst-mac but the 3560 has
> src-mac, src-ip, src-dst-mac, src-dst-ip, dst-mac, and dst-ip. in what
> situations would you use src-mac and in what situations would you use
> src-ip?
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
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