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JonAB
Dec 11, 2025Aspirant
Issues with LACP with VLANs
Hi all, Network newbie here. I am having some trouble with VLAN's combined with LACP. The setup I have at the moment are purely for educating my self. It consists of: One Netgear GS724Tv4 On...
JonAB
Dec 14, 2025Aspirant
Thank you so much Stephen and Schumaku!
This definitely helps me with the ghosts I am trying to fight!
I thought LACP and couple of parallell 1 gig connections was the answer to connect several switches and a router to the core switch. At least in the case where the cost of multigig equipment is not motivated.
Now I know that it most probably is not my configuration that is faulty, just my former understanding of LACP.
- StephenBDec 14, 2025Guru - Experienced User
JonAB wrote:
I thought LACP and couple of parallell 1 gig connections was the answer to connect several switches and a router to the core switch. At least in the case where the cost of multigig equipment is not motivated.
Well, it can work if there are enough data flows. But there almost never are on a home network.
FWIW, I had it enabled on my ReadyNAS Pro-6 >-> GS724 for a while, but decided it wasn't worth the bother, so I switched back to one gigabit connection.
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