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Spirent TestCenter: What are the LACP hashing modes supported?

Environment/Versions
  • Spirent TestCenter.
  • LACP.
Answer
Spirent TestCenter supports L2 and L3 hashing.  To enable them you must set the Traffic Algorithm to Hashing.
  • L2 hashing selects one or more fields to be used when hashing layer-2 frames. These settings are used only on frames that do not contain layer-3 packets.
Option Description
Ethernet Source Hash-based on the Ethernet Source Address.
Ethernet Destination Hash-based on the Ethernet Destination Address.
VLAN Hash-based on the VLAN Tag Control Information (TCI) field for all VLAN tags in the frame.
MPLS Hash-based on the 20-bit label in all MPLS headers in the frame.
  • L3 hashing selects one or more fields to be used when hashing layer-3 packets. These settings are used on any frame that contains a layer-3 packet.
Option Description
Ethernet Source Hash-based on the Ethernet Source Address.
Ethernet Destination Hash-based on the Ethernet Destination Address.
VLAN Hash-based on the VLAN Tag Control Information (TCI) field for all VLAN tags in the frame.
MPLS Hash-based on the 20-bit label in all MPLS headers in the frame.
IPv4 Source Hash-based on the IPv4 Source Address.
IPv4 Destination Hash-based on the IPv4 Destination Address.
IPv6 Source Hash-based on the IPv6 Source Address.
IPv6 Destination Hash-based on the IPv6 Destination Address.
UDP Hash-based on the UDP Source and Destination port numbers.
TCP Hash-based on the TCP Source and Destination port numbers

Product : Spirent TestCenter,LACP