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Hamish
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Sep 22, 2008

Multi-Interface VLAN

Hi all.     I want to have 2 interfaces into a single VLAn for redundency. Normally I'd use trunking and configure the switch as etherchannel using LACP. However in this instance I have to ...
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Hamish
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Sep 23, 2008
I don't have a lab I can do this oin at the moment... Thanks for the offer... What I'd like to see is

 

 

1. What happens if you TRUNK two interfaces without enabling LACP... (Because LACP won't work across switches The switches don't support it)

 

2. What happens if you simply add two interfaces into a VLAN...

 

 

With respects to availability (i..e what happens if one link goes down) and bridging (If a packet comes in on one interface will it be echo'd out the other). Simply bridging the interfaces would be bad...

 

 

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