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Bonding protocol

Bonding many physical links to form one logical link

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Bonding protocol (short for "Bandwidth On Demand Interoperability Group") is a generic name for a method of bonding or aggregation of multiple physical links to form a single logical link. Bonding is the term often used in Linux implementations: on Windows based systems the term teaming is often used, and between network-devices we talk about link aggregation, LAG and Link Aggregation Control Protocol.

01Major categories

  • Asynchronous bonding protocol
  • Synchronous bonding protocol
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