On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Darren Dunham wrote:

DD> IPMP can do some of what SunTrunking does, but not all of it.  It's
DD> especially poor for a backup server which would like to aggregate lots
DD> of incoming traffic from a small number of clients.

Since its not etherchannel and the NICs require a unique MAC address, I
don't see how the switch could load balance the incoming traffic. I think
that's why I dismissed that feature when setting up the server to begin
with, but I can't remember for sure. Anyone who has more
information/insight could perhaps enlighen us. :)

//Oscar

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