Aggregate Interfaces:
o Link aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad) enables to bind two or more physical interfaces together.
o Link aggregation bind two or more interfaces to form an aggregated (combined) link.
o The link aggregation(IEEE 802.3ad) new link has the bandwidth of all the links combined.
o If a link in the group fails, traffic is transferred automatically to the remaining interfaces.
o Major difference being that a redundant interface group only uses one link at a time.
o Where an aggregate link group uses the total bandwidth of the functioning links in group.
o Support of the IEEE standard 802.3ad for link aggregation is available on some models.
o An interface is available to be an aggregate interface if it is physical interface, not VLAN.
o It is not a Subinterface and it is not already part of an aggregate or redundant interface.
o it is in same VDOM as aggregated interface & Aggregate ports cannot span multiple VDOMs.
o it does not have an Internet Protocol IP address and is not configured for DHCP or PPPoE.
o it is not referenced in security policy, VIP, IP Pool or multicast policy & not HA heartbeat.
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S1 LACP Configuration
S1(config)#interface range ethernet 0/0-1
S1(config-if-range)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
S1(config-if-range)#switchport mode trunk
S1(config-if-range)#channel-protocol lacp
S1(config-if-range)#channel-group 1 mode active
S1# show etherchannel summary
S1# show etherchannel detail
S1# show etherchannel port-channel
S1#show spanning-tree vlan 1
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