Jeff writes:
I created me a vif interface made up of four 100Mb Ethernet interfaces.
I see, that only the first two interfaces really do anything, the second two show no errors, but dont DO anything.
It's my understanding that etherchannel switches use a proprietary protocol to distribute load over the links. This protocol often involves a hash of the source and destination addresses. It may be that you have a pattern of access from specific clients that doesn't hash well, and so doesn't distribute the load over all the links.
Im thinking it hasnt reached a 'threshold' to fire up more links.
I don't believe that total network load needs to hit a certain threshold in order to use all the links.
If you unplug one of the busy links, does one of the idle links pick up the slack?
Sam