On 01/03/13 16:11, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2013-01-03, Friedrich Locke <friedrich.lo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks!
What happens if i have a trunk(loadbalance) interface setted for 2 physical
interfaces and connect each physical one on different switches?
Tnx
From the manual;
"The trunk protocols loadbalance and roundrobin require a switch which
supports IEEE 802.3ad static link aggregation; otherwise protocols such
as inet6(4) duplicate address detection (DAD) cannot properly deal with
duplicate packets."
you usually can't configure this across two switches (it may be possible
with some fancy switch stacking protocol, but not in the normal case).
trunk(failover) works perfectly well in this scenario.
I thought 802.3ad the switch requirement was for when all your trunk
legs plug into the same switch.
That is, if your trunk legs are on separated networks you would not need
static link aggregation.
That said, the one time I played with a trunked interface, I direct
connected the legs.
