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4.3.7 Selecting a Team Type
The following flow chart provides the decision flow when planning for Layer 2 teaming. The primary
rationale for teaming is the need for additional network bandwidth and fault tolerance. Teaming
offers link aggregation and fault tolerance to meet both of these requirements. Preference teaming
should be selected in the following order: IEEE 802.3ad as the first choice, Generic Trunking as the
second choice, and SLB teaming as the third choice when using unmanaged switches or switches that
do not support the first two options. if switch fault tolerance is a requirement, however, then SLB is
the only choice (refer to "• Process for Selecting a Team Type" (
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pg.129)).
• Process for Selecting a Team Type
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Do you need additional
network bandwidth or fault
tolerance?
Yes
Do you need switch
fault tolerance?
No Teaming
Are you using a
switch that supports IEEE
802.3ad LACP?
Set up a Dynamic
Trunking Team
Are you using a
switch that supports Static
Trunking (FEC/GEC?)
Set up a Generic
Trunking Team
Set up an SLB
Team
