etherchannel can be configured with 2 to 8 connections per bundle. this means at the high end a bundle could potentially carry 1600Mbps given fastethernet technology; arguably 200Mbps per link at capacity. this is probably not realistic, but a theoretical yardstick measure of performance..
that given, it is also not realistic that each link in the bundle will carry it's max weight, in fact the reality is that the distribution across the individual links in the bundle will be uneven at best...
it is also true that in the event of single link failure, an adjacent link will pick up the traffic as needed, and so on... conversely, as links are restored, traffic is redistributed back to the once failed links...
bundles are comprised of up to 8 of the same physical type ethernet... they should be in the same vlan and if trunks, they should share the same native vlan, as well as speed, duplex and spanning tree settings...
to be continued...
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