I read in a Nortel Software release notes that they now to Aggregate (ci$co etherchannel) bonding between 8000 series passport chassis, in otherwords Load balancing(sharing) and pretty well instantaneous recovery in the event that 1 should fail. The only requirement is that Multilink Trunking (802.1q) is running between the chassis. I have played with this and it is way cool. Russ
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:02:38PM -0800, cfb wrote:
What strikes me as slightly odd is that most people who say they want to multihome for "fault tolerance/redundancy purposes" will reveal to you, under intense questioning, that what they *actually* want to do is load balancing.
Is load balancing really ever the ultimate objective, or is it merely a requirement of the multihoming architecture?
Whatever the case solutions exist without having to pull your hair out dealing with your upstream/NIC:
You still get to pull your hair out in other ways.
Which only leaves the following question:
Does anyone have a definitive (at this particular point in time) list of all protocols/applications that embed layer2/3 address information in the payload?
Exactly.
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