Best Practices for Catalyst 4500/4000, 5500/5000, and 6500/6000 Series Switches Running CatOS Configuration and Management 29/Nov/2007 Catalyst 6500, 4500, and 3750 Series Switches EtherChannel Load-Balancing 2
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. ...
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 t...