14 Jul
1997
14 Jul
'97
7:01 a.m.
At 11:38 PM 7/13/97 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote:
As Lance Tatman pointed out, load-balancing only works between circuits joining the same two switches. This would certainly be a factor in planning what kind of wide-area connectivity to use to join two groups of switches. A single 400Mb/s aggregate might perform much better than a pair of 200Mb/s aggregates.
Better performance, but worse reliability? The single 400Mb/s is, after all, a single point of failure, no? d/