In a basic network you have two ethernet ports that go to two separate switches. These switches are on the same subnet
If I take a basic consumer grade switch (nothing fancy) and hook it up to both switches, will it load balance (as in take two 100mb links and theoretically make it one 200mb link) between the two switches or will it just use one and turn the other one off?
IE is this kind of load balancing common in consumer grade switches?
Best Answer
Not quite. What you're looking for is link aggregation. What you're likely to do by doing this is to create a switch loop, which would be a bad thing.