topic Re: Distribute the CPU load among the different EtherChannels ports. in General Topics

Distribute the CPU load among the different EtherChannels ports.

mohammedsalhis — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:18:34 GMT

Hi Team ,

Just wondering if there's a way to distribute the CPU load among the different EtherChannels ports ?

Thank you

Re: Distribute the CPU load among the different EtherChannels ports.

BPry — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:24:38 GMT

Can you describe your question a bit more? From a dataplane CPU aspect and a traffic standpoint the firewall will manage all of this on your behalf when you create an aggregate interface. There's no tuning or anything like that you would ever need to worry about.

Re: Distribute the CPU load among the different EtherChannels ports.

mohammedsalhis — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:15:59 GMT

The customer is having PA 5410 firewall , he has etherchannel on port 23 and 24
The customer is concerned that if the module handling these two ports got damaged or has its related CPU impacted or anything similar, both ports will get impacted /down ...
Can he use different ports inside the channel to mitigate such an issue? - for example port 1 and port 23

If there is any doc regarding such concerns, it would be helpful.