A network has an EtherChannel between two switches. The traffic consists of a few very large flows between servers. The engineer notices that one link is saturated while others are idle. The current load-balancing method is src-dst-ip. Which change would most likely improve link utilization?

Change the load-balancing method to src-dst-mac.

No load-balancing method will help because the flows are too large and few.

Change the load-balancing method to dst-mac.

Change the load-balancing method to src-mac.

What is required to create a Layer 3 EtherChannel on a Cisco IOS switch?

Create a port-channel interface, assign an IP address to it, and add physical interfaces with the 'no switchport' command

Assign an IP address to each physical member interface

Enable IP routing globally and then configure the port-channel as a trunk

Create an SVI and assign it to the port-channel interface

Which command configures EtherChannel load balancing based on source and destination IP addresses on a Cisco IOS switch?

channel-group load-balance src-dst-ip

port-channel load-balance src-dst-ip

etherchannel load-balance src-dst-ip

After configuring an EtherChannel, an administrator runs show etherchannel summary and sees that the port-channel is up but only one physical interface is listed as a member. What is the most likely cause?

The other interfaces are in a different VLAN.

The load-balancing method is set to src-mac.

The other interfaces have a different speed or duplex setting.

The port-channel interface is in shutdown state.

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A network has an EtherChannel between two switches. The traffic consists of a few very large flows between servers. The engineer notices that one link is saturated while others are idle. The current load-balancing method is src-dst-ip. Which change would most likely improve link utilization?
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What is required to create a Layer 3 EtherChannel on a Cisco IOS switch?
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18foundation · easy
Which command configures EtherChannel load balancing based on source and destination IP addresses on a Cisco IOS switch?
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19application · easy
An engineer has configured an EtherChannel between two switches. The channel is up, but traffic is not using all four links evenly. The engineer suspects the load-balancing method is not optimal for the traffic pattern. Which command should the engineer use to verify the current load-balancing method?
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After configuring an EtherChannel, an administrator runs show etherchannel summary and sees that the port-channel is up but only one physical interface is listed as a member. What is the most likely cause?
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