Port-Channel Load-Balance - Cisco Catalyst 3750 Command Reference Manual

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Catalyst 3750 Switch Cisco IOS Commands

port-channel load-balance

Use the port-channel load-balance global configuration command on the switch stack or on a

standalone switch 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 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.

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.

port-channel load-balance

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