Configuring LACP & PAGP
Configuration of LACP & PAGP: LACP & PAGP: Link Aggregation Control Protocol and Port Aggregation Protocol both sounds same but the gap between these protocols is LACP is Open standard and can be used on any supported Product, where as PAGP is Cisco's proprietary and can be configured only in the Cisco devices. What are these these protocols? Generally we use trunk links to enable communication between two switches (for inter-vlan routing) when we use a single port for the trunk link (e.g., Gig port ) it gives us throughput of 1 Gbps, Making few more ports as trunk causes a loop and STP will block it from farming Configuring the LACP or PAGP gives us the capability to add multiple trunk links to a switch, without causing loops. So that providing more throughput. Port-Channel: When we have bundled multiple interfaces into a trunk group, A new logical interface is created automatically and its called as Port-Channel. When we configure this port channel inter...