This thesis comprises description of technology EtherChannel and detailed description of LACP which provides automatic link aggregation.
Beside LACP we mention two more techniques which provide the same (PAgP protocol and static configuration).
We also included detailed descriptions of load balancing modes.
The first part of the practical task includes connection and partial configuration of Cisco Catalyst 3750 switch for use of EtherChannel technology.
The second part includes connection and configuration of physical server with Linux CentOS operating system also for use of EtherChannel technology.
LACP, which will provide automatic configuration and aggregation, has been enabled on the virtual switch and on the physical server. At the same time we have set the appropriate load balance mode on both devices.
IPTraf tool has been used for measurement and capture of the network traffic.
IPTraf basically already provides some of the needed statistics, but for a more detailed analysis, we had to extract data from log files.
Data processing and further analysis have been done in bash terminal with Linux commands, using virtual terminal.
In conclusion, we have presented results of the measurements and observations.
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