Implementation may follow vendor-independent standards such as Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) for Ethernet, defined in IEEE 802. 3ad, but also proprietary protocols. Link aggregation increases the bandwidth and resilience of Ethernet. In computer networking, link aggregation is the combining (aggregating) of multiple network connections in parallel by any of several methods. Link aggregation increases total bandwidth beyond what a single connection could sustain, and provides redundancy where all but one of the physical links. The full title of this standard is “Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks – Link Aggregation”. This is a revision of IEEE Std 802. 1AX) that allows multiple Ethernet interfaces to operate as a single logical link. Load balancing: Various load redistribution techniques can be applied among the links in a group. For example, ent0 and ent1 can be aggregated into an. MLAG (Multi-chassis Link Aggregation Group or Multi-chassis LAG) is a method to form the link aggregation group (LAG) among multiple devices for redundancy — When one of the switches fails, the system can still work. 1AX-2008 standard that defined LAG does not mention.
