David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > One feature of link aggregation is increased throughput -- two physical > connections can work together as one logical connection that is twice as > fast.
With the caveat that this does not increase the throughput of a single flow. > But the killer feature is redundancy -- if every device is connected > to two different switches, you can do maintenance on one switch and > the network will remain up via the other switch. Noteworthy here: If you want to do 802.3ad (aka LACP) the switches need to be either stacked, use VSS/IRF or be compatible with MLAG/MC-LAG. If you don't have such switches, you are limited to active-backup or TLB/ALB-mode of the bonding code. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
