Load balancing method just determine which link should be used for transmission. In nut shell, if i am correct, each switch could have different indexes for the link. For example sw1 might assigns a link in etherchannel index=0, while the same link may have index=1 assigned by sw2. Am...
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The problem is, or one problem anyway, that both NICs are connected and have a link, but the drivers and SW to make them a NIC team are not running yet. The switch sees both ports up and may attempt to send traffic on both, depending on load balancing algorithms. (I co...
This should happen regardless the type of etherchannel manual, lacp, pagp: it is a basic consistency check that each switch does on its side 2) Sw2 may or may not use the same indexing scheme: each switch is in charge for load balancing decisions when tramsmitting. So nothing forbides...