Trunking in port facilities
Trunking in port facilities
In Linus's networking videos, he explains port trunking as a method to boost transfer speeds by using additional cables and adjusting configurations. My take was that it scales throughput rather than changing individual transfer rates. Did I misunderstand or is there a special technique involved?
Lacp performs some hashing to decide which link to forward. The choice of algorithm affects behavior (source Mac, target Mac, etc.), though it's usually about boosting bandwidth for several clients.
Trunking involves switching the port type to connect with another switch or router and supports VLAN traffic. Using lacp for bundling links refers to port aggregation or EtherChannel. Enabling trunking is necessary for aggregation. My belief is that with the load balancing lacp provides, it doesn’t split a single process onto multiple paths. It increases capacity and offers some redundancy. If a link in an aggregated connection fails, the connection remains active but loses bandwidth from that point. Let me know if you need more clarification.
Users often refer to the same concept, as the original explanation provided clear details about aggregation. You can boost overall bandwidth by using a faster single interface (such as 10G) connected to fewer slower ones (like a bundle of 1G), provided the right hashing method is in place. In most cases, standard lacp configurations support broader connectivity across several links but don’t permit direct client-to-server transfers.