On 2012-09-14 at 07:17 -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: > Under circumstances with which a port goes down, would the link > aggregation generally be fine?
Define "down"? If the port has no signal, sure it gets taken out. But failures aren't always so clean. For instance, a dirty cable with noise causing corruption might cause checksums to fail and retransmissions, but the link is up and in use. Or the device on the far side might be wedged such that it keeps the link "up" with protocol management reporting health but doesn't actually forward packets. Those are the first two that come to mind. Generally, the easy failures which take a link down don't cause problems, because the link is down, monitoring picks it up, someone fixes the link and in the meantime traffic takes a different path. It's the "half-down" states that get folks woken up at night. -Phil _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
