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Valentine2014-11-07 15:27:41
Computer networks
Valentine, 2014-11-07 15:27:41

How does Link aggregation work over a wireless network?

Gentlemen, everyone who works with networks knows what Link aggregation is for, aka LAG, aka LACP. More or less everyone understands how it works.
In the simplest case, the scheme looks like this.
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With a predictable direct wire route, everything is clear.
But what happens if one of the links goes through some other network, such as a wireless one? In this case, the delays on one of the links will be much greater. In the picture, LAG is configured only on the edge routers, the radio points transparently pass both traffic and fast LACP protocols.
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How will it work? Most likely, the trunk will fall. Is it possible to somehow adjust the timings for the LACP protocol?
Instead of radio relays, there can be, for example, an MPLS cloud with a pair of x-connects, in which it is sometimes difficult to imagine how to build an LSP and traffic will go. An extra polisher on the track can introduce unpredictability.

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Sergey, 2014-11-07
@bk0011m

Is LACP configured between hosts? As far as I'm concerned, this is done between the host and the switch .. Not?

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huziahmetov, 2014-11-12
@huziahmetov

if I understand the question correctly, you need dynamic routing protocols, since the protocol only works on a "simplest case" scheme.

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Denis Sechin, 2019-07-14
@tamogavk

And how is the wireles interface assembled? Directly by modules or through intermediate access points?

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