LACP LAG Load sharing methods

[treese]

There are many load sharing methods with LAG for Extreme and I would like to see documentation or have someone explain each one. Reason being is we have LACP LAGs, MLAGs, static LAGs in our environments. Some are Extreme to Extreme and others are FW to Extreme, Linux to Extreme, ESX host to Extreme. Just looking for the best load distribution and have always done address-based L3_L4 LACP. I believe our single port LAGs to MLAG set is this way too.

Thank you, very much.

[Patrick_Voss]

Hi Ted,

LAG and MLAG should be looked at separately and are really unrelated to each other. There really isnt a recommended setting for a LAG. It depends on what kind of traffic is traversing the network. If you use L2 then it will hash the traffic out a port based on the source and destination mac address. Same thing with L3. LACP can be used on any LAG setup and is simply there has a health check for the link. If the LACP packets do not make it across the port is removed from the aggregate.

I hope this answered all your questions.