From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Fri Apr 15 2005 - 09:35:59 GMT-3
The whole spec for link aggregation deals with single chassic environment.
It's not like the old dial days with multi-chassis multi-link ppp. :)
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 4:06 AM
To: Alan Halachmi
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: EtherChannel/Link Aggregation
R U sure your friend is talking about cisco's switches?
On 4/13/05, Alan Halachmi <alan@halachmi.net> wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> I'm hoping this group will have some insight... I've just had
> a conversation with a colleague of mine who believes that EtherChannel
> and/or Link Aggregation can be supported across multiple switching
> chassis. As an example, my colleague claims that if an AIX system is
> configured with a virtual EtherChannel or Link Aggregation interface
> (one physical interface to switch 1 and the second physical interface
> to switch 2), and the switches are running EtherChannel, 802.3ea, or
> 802.3ad LAC that the AIX system is able to successfully communicate
> with other systems over that aggregated bandwidth. I didn't think
> that EtherChannel or Link Aggregation could be done across multiple
switches. Thoughts?
>
> Best,
> Alan
>
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