<div dir="ltr">One could argue that it shrinks failure domains somewhat but the bundle/lacp resiliency (mentioned above) largely mitigates this..<div><br></div><div>Perhaps outside the OP's scope but I'd hope whatever the circumstances of using a switch for port density on a router, there should always be a redundant router/setup teamed with it ;)</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Matt</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 April 2015 at 10:17, Karl Auer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au" target="_blank">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 10:09 +1000, Matt Ayre wrote:<br>
> I think that's pretty much it but it's just plain nasty looking isnt it :)<br>
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</span>The biggie for me is would be that if that one interface fails,<br>
everything fails with it.<br>
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Or a variant: A misconfiguration of one thing could take out all the<br>
things.<br>
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Regards, K.<br>
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