Understanding Lacp; Lacp Overview - Cisco nexus 5000 series Configuration Manual

Configuring Port Channels
Configuration
Source and destination
TCP/UDP port
Use the option that provides the balance criteria with the greatest variety in your configuration. For example,
if the traffic on a port channel is going only to a single MAC address and you use the destination MAC address
as the basis of port-channel load balancing, the port channel always chooses the same link in that port channel;
using source addresses or IP addresses might result in better load balancing.
The hardware multicast hw-hash command is not supported on Cisco Nexus 3500 Series switches. It is
Note
recommended not to configure this command on these switches.

Understanding LACP

LACP Overview

You must enable the LACP feature before you can configure and use LACP functions.
Note
The following figure shows how individual links can be combined into LACP port channels and channel
groups as well as function as individual links.
Figure 7: Individual Links Combined into a Port Channel
With LACP, just like with static port channels, you can bundle up to 16 interfaces in a channel group.
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Layer 2 Criteria
Source and destination
MAC
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Layer 3 Criteria Layer 4 Criteria
Source and destination Source and destination
MAC, source and MAC, source and
destination IP destination IP , and source
and destination port
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