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L2 or L3 Load Sharing

L2 or L3 Load Sharing

Prinfo
New Contributor
Hi!

Is there anyone who can explain a bit about the differences between layer 2 and layer 3 load sharing?

Why would I choose layer 2 before layer 3 for example?

If there's only multicast on the ports, would it be better to use layer 3?

Any information is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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PARTHIBAN_CHINN
Contributor
Layer 2 will consider only Mac address for hashing
L3 considers Ip .... If it is multicast with different IP subnets l3 should be good

Hi PARTHIBAN,

Is it Multicast traffic will load shared in a lag???
GTM-P2G8KFN