On 2015-02-16 08:46 AM, Josh Grosse wrote:
I've just ordered a D-Link DGS-1100 series low-end managed switch and
am wondering if anyone has used one of these with either a roundrobin
or loadbalance trunk(4) configuration.
The DGS-1200 series supports LACP, but the 1100 only supports an
undefined
"static trunk aggregation" method.
DGS-1100 definitely does not support active LACP negotiation. The
"static trunk aggregation" it talks about is, basically, static bonding,
or what was once called EtherChannel. Which is exactly what the
trunk(4) manpage refers to as "IEEE 802.3ad static link aggregation".
You're good to go.
A related question is whether there even is such a thing as "IEEE
802.3ad static link aggregation", since the whole point of 802.3ad is to
define the link aggregation protocol (i.e. "LACP"). I don't have a copy
of the standard on hand to verify my recollection, though. (And I'm not
going to pay that much just for this, sorry.)
Also, note that 802.3ad was renumbered, effectively, to 802.1AX-2008
which has since been superceded by 802.1AX-2014... not that anyone
really knows or cares about that level of detail.
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