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2x M4300-8X8F LAG on redundant stacking cables
Hello, I have set-up 2 M4300-8X8F in my rack, they are going to be our new core switches. I have connected 2x 10G copper links between the core switches and have set-up the ports as STACK ports, whi...
Hi ,
The traffic between stack would be hash by source ip，source port，destination ip and destination port.
May be all traffic just hashed to same port by chance when you monitoring.
Suggest to monitring for a long time, and traffic would be even between the two stacking ports.
Thanks
Carl
Carl_z wrote:Hi ,
You are right !
If only select the two stack ports on each switch, that the unit will aggregate the two stacking ports on each switch by itself. And would already have 2x 10GbE bandwith between the switches.
And Standby mode you can leave it at default value， no need to do any configuration about this
Thanks
Carl
Hi Carl,
If I check port statistics within the Monitoring menu, I would only see packets received on 1 stacking port on each switch instead of both stacking ports. This makes me wonder.
Thanks.
Hi ,
The traffic between stack would be hash by source ip，source port，destination ip and destination port.
May be all traffic just hashed to same port by chance when you monitoring.
Suggest to monitring for a long time, and traffic would be even between the two stacking ports.
Thanks
Carl
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