link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

[Freddie Cash]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Damien Fleuriot <ml at my.gd> wrote:
> I have a firewall with 2x Intel pro dual port cards.
>
> On Intel A , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2
> On Intel B , port 1 goes to switch 1, port 2 goes to switch 2
>
> I have created the following 2 lagg devices using LACP:
>
> lagg0 = A1 + B1
> lagg1 = A2 + B2
>
> This works fine.
>
> Now, what I had in mind was creating a lagg2 device using lagg0 and
> lagg1 with failover.
>
> That would provide redundancy in case of a switch failure.

Couple different options:
  - create a single lagg0 device using all port NIC ports
  - create your lagg0 using A1 + B2, and your lagg1 using A2+B1

Both of those will give you fail-over support for losing a single NIC
port, an entire NIC, or an entire switch.

Of course, if your switched aren't stacked to support LACP across
them, then you will be limited to a single links bandwidth.  But you
will be extremely safe.  :)
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Freddie Cash
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