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Old 12-12-2011
LACP Policy - Which is best?
Hello,

I have these S10 boxes with LACP using the L4 policy. Does the L4 policy create a lot more overhead as opposed to using the L2?

I'm noticing that my traffic does not seem to be very well load balanced accross the NIC's, and I am wondering if the policy I'm using has anything else to do with it?

Code:
# dladm show-aggr -s

key:1           ipackets   rbytes       opackets   obytes       %ipkts  %opkts
        Total   2734381041 2922634128   734900983  5553993929
        bge0    2710911407 697000895    138651909  1529336983     99.1    18.9
        bge2    23469634   2225633233   596249074  4024656946      0.9    81.1

key:2           ipackets   rbytes       opackets   obytes       %ipkts  %opkts
        Total   722496911  4459902805   314766444  6146321371
        bge1    274264671  1433370073   255797278  3904691423     38.0    81.3
        bge3    448232240  3026532732   58969166   2241629948     62.0    18.7

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Old 12-12-2011
I think more meaningful statistics can be achieved by watching the load distribution over some time. I think this will show it over 5 minutes intervals:
Code:
dladm show-aggr -s -i 300

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