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Learning OpenDaylight

You're reading from   Learning OpenDaylight A gateway to SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782174523
Length 336 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Reza Toghraee Reza Toghraee
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to SDN - Transformation from Legacy to SDN 2. Overview of OpenDaylight FREE CHAPTER 3. OpenDaylight Installation and Deployment 4. Building a Virtual SDN Test Lab with Virtual Switches 5. Basic Networking with OpenDaylight 6. Overview of OpenDaylight Applications 7. Building SDN Applications for OpenDaylight 8. Network Function Virtualization 9. Building a Software-Driven Data Center with OpenDaylight

Link aggregation


Another important basic L2 feature that is available in most switches is link aggregation.

In the networking industry, there are other names for link aggregation, such as EtherChannel (Cisco term), Trunk (Brocade, HP, and Huawei), LAG (Juniper), Bond (Linux), LACP, and Port Channel (Cisco), but they all refer to the same link aggregation.

OpenDaylight supports link aggregation by supporting Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).

The LACP module within OpenDaylight implements LACP as an MD-SAL service module. It is used to autodiscover and aggregate multiple links between an OpenDaylight-controlled network and LACP-enabled endpoints or switches. The result is the creation of a logical channel, which represents the aggregation of the links. Link aggregation provides link resiliency and bandwidth aggregation.

Configuring LACP

LACP can be enabled in the OpenDaylight Karaf console of the OpenDaylight Karaf distribution by issuing the following command:

feature:install OpenDaylight...
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