Port-Channel Load-Balance - Cisco IE-3000-8TC Command Reference Manual

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port-channel load-balance

Use the port-channel load-balance global configuration command to set the load-distribution method

among the ports in the EtherChannel. Use the no form of this command to return to the default setting.

Syntax Description

The default is src-mac.

Command Modes

Global configuration

Command History

Usage Guidelines

For information about when to use these forwarding methods, see the "Configuring EtherChannels"

chapter in the software configuration guide for this release.

This example shows how to set the load-distribution method to dst-mac:

Switch(config)# port-channel load-balance dst-mac

You can verify your setting by entering the show running-config privileged EXEC command or the

show etherchannel load-balance privileged EXEC command.

Related Commands

interface port-channel

port-channel load-balance {dst-ip | dst-mac | src-dst-ip | src-dst-mac | src-ip | src-mac}

no port-channel load-balance

Load distribution is based on the destination host IP address.

Load distribution is based on the destination host MAC address. Packets to the same

destination are sent on the same port, but packets to different destinations are sent on

different ports in the channel.

Load distribution is based on the source and destination host IP address.

Load distribution is based on the source and destination host MAC address.

Load distribution is based on the source host IP address.

Load distribution is based on the source MAC address. Packets from different hosts use

different ports in the channel, but packets from the same host use the same port.

Modification

This command was introduced.

Accesses or creates the port channel.

port-channel load-balance

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