https://38a8db03.aww-3cz.pages.dev/tags/xor/ Recent content in Xor on Aaron's Worthless Words Hugo en Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://38a8db03.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2009/06/bcmsn-notes-etherchannel-distribution/ Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://38a8db03.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2009/06/bcmsn-notes-etherchannel-distribution/ <p>EtherChannel lets you aggregate links into one logical connection, but the distribution of traffic is not uniform.  It does not use per-packet load-balancing or the like to determine what interface in the bundle to use.  Instead, it uses a XOR function on packet information to generate a hash that is used to determine what interface to use.</p> <p>By default, the switch will use both the source and destination IP addresses to generate the hash, but there are lots of others.</p>