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Re: [Networker] General sun HW performance question

2005-01-06 12:09:22
Subject: Re: [Networker] General sun HW performance question
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:08:11 -0800
> 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.

Thats exactly why it's poor for that purpose.

If you have large numbers of clients, then you can balance them across
multiple IPs.  But it's not as easy as having it done automatically for
you.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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