Make sure your cables are where you think they are before turning up a new EtherChannel bundle.
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A quick observation the STP path costs and EtherChannels
EtherChannel lets you aggregate links into one logical connection, but the distribution of traffic is not uniform. It does not use per-packet load-balancing or the like to determine what interface in the bundle to use. Instead, it uses a XOR function on packet information to…
Have you even noticed that your new servers all have 2 NICs on the board? At least all of them that I’ve seen in the last 3 years have. A lot of server admin actually use them in a NIC teaming scenario where both NICs…