At least until the standards are done for 40G and 100G Ethernet, link aggregation will remain the preferred high-speed uplink method. Link aggregation, described in IEEE standard 802.3ad, binds ...

We are having a storage area network installed in a few days. The vendor who is installing the equipment has requested that we configure the switch being used for what they are calling link ...

Link aggregation sounded quite helpful when I first heard of it. Take two network cables, plug them into your NAS, tie them together with some magical configuration, and voilà — you have double the ...