Hey Jeremy,
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Page, Jeremy jeremy.page@gilbarco.com wrote:
I have a two VIFs (one for each filer head) spread across a pair of stacked 3750-Es. Right now I'm using Etherchannel on the switches but I've been reading a lot saying that LACP may be better. I'm trying to figure out what exactly the benefit would be, can anyone clarify?
LACP uses keepalives, to confirm that both sides of the link are still in agreement on how to bundle and loadbalance the data, whereas a multi uses a static configuration. Also, LACP can dynamically reconfigure a link on error.
There are situations where either bugs, hardware error or operator errors (misconfig) can cause up to 50% packet loss over a multi, which would be automatically repaired when using LACP. Greets,
Nils.