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Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 11:20:47 -0400
On May 15, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Aaron Gould <aaron1 () gvtc com> wrote: I have (2) 10 gig links bundled in a lag to my upstream internet provider. and we need more internet capacity. Is it cool to add a third 10 gig to my existing 20 gig lag internet connection? I'm asking since I heard in the past something negative about odd numbers of lag members. .but I also have heard that it's not a big deal. Let me know please
Much of this depends on the hardware, software and what hashing is used inbound outbound traffic directions, etc. It will likely work the way you expect, but one may be warmer than the other if traffic ends up overloading a single bucket in the hash. - Jared
Current thread:
- is odd number of links in lag group ok Aaron Gould (May 15)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Jared Mauch (May 15)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Mark Tinka (May 15)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Adam Atkinson (May 15)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Saku Ytti (May 16)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Ben Cannon (May 15)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Mark Tinka (May 15)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Jared Mauch (May 15)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Wayne Bouchard (May 16)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Ben Cannon (May 21)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Mark Tinka (May 22)
- Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok Ben Cannon (May 21)
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- RE: is odd number of links in lag group ok Jakob Heitz (jheitz) (May 16)