LACP or PAGP aggregation of bandwidth

Is someone can you please tell me if I got a PAGP or LACP etherchannel between two ports together on a switch and two ports together on another switch if I'd get 2gig max flow.

Hello!

To do this, it increments your available bandwidth, BUT this only applies to L2 Etherchannels.

Also, take in mind load balancing methods because if not properly implemented the traffic will not be balanced also, or one of the links you will get much more responsible.

Here is a document explaining that the balancing algorithms in case you want to dig deeper on this subject:

http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/LAN-switching/EtherChannel/120...

Let me know if you have any questions!

I hope this can help, greetings!

JC

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