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LACP Overview

Link Aggregation Control Protocol


(LACP)
Link Aggregation is bundling two or more links as one logical link for increasing
bandwidth and availability. This can be done by one of the two protocols . One of them is the
Cisco proprietary PAgP and the other is standard based LACP. PAgP is the Port
Aggregation Protocol. And the LACP is the Link Aggregation Control Protocol. These
two protocols does not interoperate each other. You can use only one of them to configure
link aggragation. You can also check wiki definion, here.

Here, we will focus to the standard based, Link Aggregation Control Protocol. In another
lesson, we will learn How to Configure LLDP on Cisco , Juniper LLDP Configuration and
Nokia LLDP Configuration. The last Cisco devices are already use LACP instead of PagP.
Link Aggregation on Cisco Devices
To aggragete links to a single logical link, firstly we need more than two ports with the same
characteristics such as data rate, duplex capability, etc.. The ports can be in different
interfaces, this is not important.

There is also a limitation about ports in the bundle. In Cisco platforms the ports in a bundle is
limited by 8ports . This can be change in some platforms. For example in Cisco 10000 series,
only 4 port is supported in a bundle.

This bundle is called Link Aggregation(LAG) generally.

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