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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/
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