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Link Aggregation
• If all ports on a switch are operating at the same speed
(for example, 1 Gbps), the most likely ports to
experience congestion are ports connecting to another
switch or router
• logically combine multiple physical connections into a
single logical connection, over which traffic can be sent,
is called link aggregation.
LAG (Link Aggregation Group)
LAG is a process of inter-connecting two switches with two or more links between them
(or between a switch and a server), so that multiple links are combined into one bigger
virtual link that can carry a higher (combined) bandwidth.
LAG is also used for increasing link reliability.
multiple links connect two devices, even if one fails the other links keep carrying the
information and the traffic on the failed link is also transferred to them.
LAG is a static protocol and needs to be configured individually for each pair of physical
ports. LAG is a standard.
LAG can also be called a port-channel, a bond, or a team
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
803.2ad or 802.1AX, also called Link Aggregation Control Protocol or LACP.
LACP is the standards based protocol used to signal LAGs
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is a protocol for the collective handling of multiple
physical ports that can be seen as a single channel for network traffic purposes.
IP Address Management
Layer 3 interfaces
VLAN interfaces
Management interfaces
IP address, subnet mask/CIDR block, default gateway, DNS (optional)
VLAN
VLAN assignment
Each device port should be assigned a VLAN
Trucking
Connecting switches together
Multiple VLANs in a single link