All About Link Aggregation

Link aggregation allows you to take 2 physical, ethernet ports, and join them together to form 1 virtual, ethernet port. This means that you will have redundancy in case 1 of the physical ports, or cables has an issue. t also allows you to have more bandwidth for the ip address that you assign to the virtual, ethernet port than you could get from 1 physical port. The only re!uirement is that both physical ports be connected to the same switch. TO CREATE A LINK AGGREGATED, VIRTUAL PORT: 1. As padmin, to create a "link aggregation" using the physical, ethernet ports ent# $ ent%& ' mkvdev -lnagg en ! en " ent1( Available en1( et1( ' )hy ent1(* +ecause, when the virtual, ethernet port is created, the ,- uses the ne.t available port. n our case, ent/ 0 ent1% were already created on the system. TO VIE# #$IC$ ET$ERNET PORT% ARE LINK AGGREGATION%: 1. As padmin,& lsdev 1 grep 0i link 2.ample&
' lsdev & g'ep -i link ent13 Available 2ther4hannel 5 222 6/2.3ad Link Aggregation '

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All About Link Aggregation

TO (IND OUT T$E REAL, P$)%ICAL, ET$ERNET PORT% A LINK AGGREGATE U%E%: 1. As padmin,& lsdev -dev en ** -a ' L++k a 2.ample&
' lsdev 0dev ent13 0attr attribute value description user>settable

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adapter>names ent/,ent1 2ther4hannel Adapters True alt>addr /.//////////// Alternate 2ther4hannel Address True auto>recovery yes 2nable automatic recovery after failover True backup>adapter 7,72 Adapter used when whole channel fails True hash>mode default ?etermines how outgoing adapter is chosen True mode standard 2ther4hannel mode of operation True netaddr / Address to ping True noloss>failover yes 2nable lossless failover after ping failure True num>retries 3 Times to retry ping before failing True retry>time 1 )ait time 8in seconds: between pings True use>alt>addr no 2nable Alternate 2ther4hannel Address True use>jumbo>frame no 2nable @igabit 2thernet <umbo Arames True '

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