We use CEF quite a bit, over 200 remote nodes with multiple circuits, it
works out very well for us. The load on the circuits is always very close,
I couldn't tell you with any certainty that it is within 1 to 2 percent
though.
I have had 2 issues with CEF in the past 2 years, and both involved FT
"I had heard that etherchannel (or the IEEE derivative) would
support nearly equal load splitting across N interfaces.
And it also defines a mechanism so that the receiving router
would be able to detect and re-order packets which arrive out of
order)."
I've never heard of that. In fact, excerpts
At 06:18 PM 7/14/2003 +, p b wrote:
>Consider two routers which have 3 GEs between them (no L2
>device between them).
>
>Is it "better" to configure each of these GEs as
>a standalone L3 connection or to combine them GEs into
>an etherchannel (802.1ae?) bundle?
>
>My $0.02 would be to keep them
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