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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:48:20 -0700
From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: lagg LACP between two hosts
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:14:04PM +0200, andrea@brancatelli.it wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have a strange curiosity maybe you can clarify me :-)
> 
> Is it possible to do a LACP lagg connection directly between two hosts
> using two gigalan and two crossed cables? Or maybe three... ;-)

Yes, that will work fine. The load balancing across the link uses the
mac+ip to hash so you need variation in those to split the traffic.


Andrew