scale21 wrote:
LACP isnt used so it was setup for LinkAg and throughput......and it wasnt for load balancing considering that is only affected egressly.
LACP and EtherChannel accomplish roughly the same thing. Traffic is distributed across the uplinks based on the distribution method, which is IP Hash in this case. The main advantage of LACP is that it is negotiated by the switches and is aware of misconfigurations and failures, whereas EtherChannel (HP "Trunk") is a static configuration.
Neither one actually does any sort of load balancing. They do perform load distribution, but are ignorant of saturation of any one uplink. Only "route based on physical NIC load" will actively do load balancing.