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Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

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Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

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So, in this lesson, we're going to talk about the Link Aggregation Control Protocol, LACP. Now, LACP is an open industry standard that's going to be supported by multiple network device manufacturers, as well as operating systems. Now, LACP uses a common MAC address, so it'll be easy for you, if you want to use Wireshark, to kind of filter out for specific messaging if it doesn't work with specific protocols. Now, LACP interfaces are going to act as far as one of two ways. The first way is passive, and with a passive LACP member interface, we're basically not going to send any LACP packets, but if we receive one, then we'll try to attempt to establish an LACP adjacency. The other type is an active port, and so in this mode, we're going to actually send LACP packets, And if we receive an LSP packet, we'll start to initiate the adjacency. So just to kind of show you a different way of looking at things, I've got a chart that will show you the cross comparison. And so here in the chart…

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