Hi Alan,

I thanked you in the earlier email but since it was in "Rich Text" format, may 
not have reached you.  What can I say, you are the best!  I did 802.3ad and 
worked like a charm!

Wish you all great weekend!

Warm Regards,
Tom



On 04/13/17, Alan Altmarkcom> wrote:

On Wednesday, 04/12/2017 at 10:38 GMT, canzon...@verizon.net wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> Thank you. I want both slaves active at the same time. The testing is
done dropping link2 so that
> the link2 pick it up. And, when that link1 is bought up and drop link2.
>
> I would appreciate if you can give little more insight to this.

Tom, you need to choose either active-backup or 802.3ad. Forget the other
modes. Of the two, only in 802.3ad are both interfaces active at the same
time, and that only works because the physical switch is participating in
the illusion.

The advantage of 802.3ad (link aggregation) over active-backup are
twofold:
1) No packet loss during failover
2) More bandwidth than available from single interface

If you don't need either, then active-backup is good enough.

Alan Altmark

Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant
Lab Services System z Delivery Practice
IBM Systems & Technology Group
ibm.com/systems/services/labservices
office: 607.429.3323
mobile; 607.321.7556
alan_altm...@us.ibm.com
IBM Endicott

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