Enabling Local-First Load Sharing For Link Aggregation - HP 5820X series Configuration Manual

To do...
3. Configure the load
sharing criteria for the
aggregation group
Set the following group-specific load sharing criteria:
Source IP address
•
Destination IP address
•
Source IP address and destination IP address
•
Source MAC address
•
Destination MAC address
•
Destination MAC address and source MAC address
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Enabling local-first load sharing for link aggregation

Use the local-first load sharing mechanism in a cross-card or cross-switch link aggregation scenario to
distribute traffic preferentially across all member ports on the ingress card or switch rather than all
member ports.
When you aggregate ports on different member switches in an IRF virtual device, you can use local-first
load sharing to reduce traffic on IRF links, as shown in
IRF Configuration Guide.
Figure 13 Local-first link-aggregation load sharing
Any member ports on
the ingress switch?
Packets are load shared only
across the member ports on
the ingress switch
To enable local-first load sharing for link aggregation:
Use the command...
link-aggregation load-sharing mode
{ destination-ip | destination-mac |
source-ip | source-mac } *
The egress port for a traffic flow
is an aggregate interface that has
member ports on different IRF
member switches
Yes
Local-first load sharing
mechanism enabled?
No
Yes
Remarks
Required.
By default, an aggregation group
uses the global link-aggregation load
sharing criteria.
Figure 13. For more information about IRF, see the
No
Packets are load shared
across all member ports
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