34 Switching Configuration
• Increased bandwidth: The aggregated physical links deliver higher bandwidth than each individual
link.
• Incremental increase in bandwidth: A physical upgrade could produce a 10-times increase in
bandwidth; LAG produces a two- or five-times increase, useful if only a small increase is needed.
Management functions treat a port-channel as if it were a single physical port.
You can include a port-channel in a VLAN. You can configure more than one port-channel for a given
switch.
CLI Example
The following shows an example of configuring the software to support Link Aggregation (LAG) to a
server and to a Layer 3 switch.
Figure 3-2 shows the example network.
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