Trunk traffic distirbution

[Nitzan Tzelniker]

I am new to HP switches and I am looking for command like "port-channel load-balance src-dst-ip" in Cisco for ProCurve 2900 or to know how this switch will load balance traffic in L2 etherchannel

TIA

Nitzan

[Matt Hobbs]

They load balance by Souce-Address/Destination-Address pairs only.

There are no configuration options available to change this.

Basically, the more active conversations you have between different hosts, the better the load balancing will be.

[Nitzan Tzelniker]

Ok
but does it based on ip address or mac address.

TIA

[Matt Hobbs]

From what I understand, they primarily load balance via SA/DA mac-address, however if 'ip routing' is enabled, they then load balance via SA/DA IP address (I'm not sure if this is instead of or in combination with mac-addresses). I've never tested and verified this 2nd method myself, but can see situations where it would definitely be required (e.g. a point to point L3 trunk link between routers)