diff --git a/main.tex b/main.tex index 4e1f00e..45ff52f 100644 --- a/main.tex +++ b/main.tex @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ \newcommand{\notice}[2]{% \shadowbox{% - \begin{varwidth}{\linewidth} + \begin{varwidth}{0.85\linewidth} \texttt{\textbf{#1}}\\ #2 \end{varwidth} @@ -293,10 +293,46 @@ Channel bundling is the "art" of using multiple physical links as one single log Technologies: \begin{itemize} \item \textbf{PAgP:} The Cisco-only thingy - \item \textbf{LACP:} The IETF standard + \item \textbf{LACP:} The IEEE standard + \item \textbf{Static:} Just forced on \end{itemize} +\fig{channelbundling/network-without-channelbundling}{noethernetchannel}% +{No Channelbundling present} +Channel bundling of switch ports in the network may or may not be the best idea, in regards to the networks growth rate in terms of min. required bandwidth. + +Channel bundling spreads out the in and egress flows based upon one of several methods configured on the switch: +\begin{itemize} + \item Source to Destination MAC + \item Source to Destination IP +\end{itemize} +Keep in mind this will by no means archive true load balancing. Where all links are equally used based upon number of flows \textit{or} in terms of used bandwidth. + +\fig{channelbundling/network-with-channelbundling}{withethernetchannel}% +{Channelbundling present} + +\subsubsection{Protocol Properties} + +\begin{itemize} + \item LACP + \begin{itemize} + \item Active: Enabled + \item Passive: Waits for LACP packets on the wire before enabled + \end{itemize} + \item PAgP + \begin{itemize} + \item Desirable: Enabled + \item Auto: Waits for PAgP packets on the wire before enabled + \end{itemize} +\end{itemize} + +Some other \underline{required} settings to be (equal across all ports) aware of when configuring Channel bundling are +\begin{enumerate} + \item Port speeds + \item Duplex mode + \item Configured vlan ranges +\end{enumerate} \subsubsection{Example configuration} \lstinputlisting{code/channelbundling/example.cfg} @@ -327,7 +363,7 @@ Technologies: % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -\renewcommand{\listfigurename}{List of plots} +\renewcommand{\listfigurename}{List of {\footnotesize hidden} Figures} \listoffigures %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%