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Fabric Connect Load balance among more than two paths, possible?

Fabric Connect Load balance among more than two paths, possible?

difan
New Contributor II

3 weeks ago

 

Quick question:
 
Does two Backbone VLANs mean I can only load balance between two PATHs? 
 
For example, in scenario that I have three BCBs sw1, sw2 and sw3 and two BEBs sw4 and sw5. Sw4 and sw5 has connections to all three BCBc but not between each other. When users/devices on sw4 communicate to users/devices on sw5 (on the same VLAN/I-SID), can traffic take all three paths/BCBs, or will it take only sw1 and sw3 (for the two Backbone VLANs, one picking the lowest system ID sw1 and another picking the highest system ID sw3?
 
Thanks!
Difan

 

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Shaja
New Contributor II

3 weeks ago

Hi Difan

Yes it is the "IEEE_802.1aq standard" support up to 16? .. but extreme fabric connect is only on 2.

The Alcatel-Lucent Omniswitch 6900 support more then 2 not sure why it not the same ..

 

https://www.al-enterprise.com/-/media/assets/internet/documents/spb-architecture-tech-brief-en.pdf

I think the 

 

 

 

https://een.extremenetworks.com/265805-multipathing-in-spb-networks

 

 

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