Plug-and-play Switches that support LACP ? Netgear GS116E-200NAS in particular

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Looking for a plug-and-play switch that supports Link Aggregation via LACP protocol.

I'm interested in the Netgear GS116Ev2 unmanaged plus switch, and it says that is supports LAG (Link Aggregation) - but it doesn't call out LACP or 802.3ad.

I have several devices with multiple GbE ports (say, a MacPro) supporting LACP and I'd like to set up Link Aggregation between them and a switch (single IP, redundancy, load balance, higher throughput, etc). Does anyone have experience with this switch?

Welcome comments, advice, and recommendations for alternate plug-and-play switches supporting LACP.

Cheers!
 
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You don't have to have LACP to get aggrecation to work. Microsoft only recently started to support it. I suspect these switches you just manually build the groups on both the switch and the server. I know the netgear smart switch line claims to support LACP but the guys I was helping never got it to work with a HP procurve switch and just hardcoded the ports into the bundles.

Other than something to play with it generally serves no purpose in a home environment. Even in a business environment you don't see it a lot any more because it is easier to just put 10g ports in.

The main use of this is for a server that is talking to many machines. It will buy you absolutely nothing if you were to have 2 machine each with a pair of bonded...
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You don't have to have LACP to get aggrecation to work. Microsoft only recently started to support it. I suspect these switches you just manually build the groups on both the switch and the server. I know the netgear smart switch line claims to support LACP but the guys I was helping never got it to work with a HP procurve switch and just hardcoded the ports into the bundles.

Other than something to play with it generally serves no purpose in a home environment. Even in a business environment you don't see it a lot any more because it is easier to just put 10g ports in.

The main use of this is for a server that is talking to many machines. It will buy you absolutely nothing if you were to have 2 machine each with a pair of bonded ports say copying files between each other. It does not load balance the traffic by packet it load balances it by a number of other options but it always transfers all the data for a single session over a single path. So the maximum speed you can ever get for a single session is 1 connections bandwidth. It is not exactly smart it does not care about utilization even with say 2 different machines talking to 1 server it could run all the traffic over a single connection. There are a couple of options to tune this but a simplistic example would run all traffic from odd number addresses over 1 connection and all even number addresses over the other.

Your other issue is it generally takes a specially tuned server to be able to really send data at over even 1g at a sustained rate. People have done it with raid of SSD but you will still need something that can use data at that rate.

 
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