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Re: One network card many rj45 sockets



David Christensen <dpchrist@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°

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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