Q: Why only 1 card in Ultra 2? A: CPU limitation. Can't get 500Mhz per card for more than one card. Q: Did you say 500 Mhz per card? A: Yes. This can be in any configuration. You can have two 250 MHz CPU's, three 167's, five 110's, etc. How you get 500 Mhz is up to you and your customer. Q: What do you mean "at least a 167 Mhz CPU for trunking"? A: For trunking, all the interrupts that occur are managed by one CPU. With such a heavy load on one CPU, you need to have at least a 167 CPU to handle this. You cannot choose 110 CPU's or 75 CPU's. System Type No. of QFE's supported Ultra 2 1 Ultra 30 1 Ultra 450 2 E3000 2 E4000/5000 2 E6000 2 E10000 (4 per domain) Sun Trunking v1.x has two policies. ----------------------------------- Round-Robin - typically used only for back-to-back Sun server connections. MAC-Hashing - typically used only for Trunking-Capable switch connections. The most efficient algorithm to use is MAC-Hashing, as it maintains the temporal ordering of packets within a single stream. It is best suited to AGGREGATE multiple clients over a Trunked network fabric as it hashes (binary XOR last 2 bits) client MAC addresses to determine which port to use. With a 4-port trunk, 25% of client traffic would hash (00,01,10,11) to use each of the four 100BaseT QFE ports.