Hi there

I have a requirement to provide failover to our customer boxes in case of 
interface / switch failure, I have been looking at Solaris Link Aggregation 
with LACP and I wanted to ask a   question 

Ive seen multiple websites that say the following 

[b]You cannot use link aggregation if you are using two separate switches. As 
per IEEE 802.3ad, an aggregation connects two end-points. Some switch vendors 
implement their own extensions which allows a single "logical" aggregation to 
span multiple switches, but these solutions are not yet common and don't always 
explicitly support 802.3ad.[/b]

Does this also mean that if the switches are [U]trunked togethe[/U]r that you 
still cant use 2 switches ??. One absolute requirement of this project is that 
I use 2 seperate switches, so if this isnt possible, then Ill have to look into 
IPMP or something else

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Gary
 
 
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