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Situation: two ethernet connections, between a switch and a server.
At the switch end, the two interfaces are configured for LACP.
At the server end, they're configured as normal ethernet interfaces.
How do the switch interfaces behave?
I believe that they'll behave as two normal ethernet interfaces and forward the traffic in parallel to the server as if they had no LACP config applied to them. The server will pick one interface and use it for outbound traffic.
The switch interfaces might be configured for LACP but until they form an LACP trunk with the server end interfaces, nothing happens to the normal traffic. In reality it's halving the bandwidth available between them because they're both forwarding the same traffic.
Is this correct please?

Edit: The interfaces are configured as outbound mirrored ports.

Situation: two ethernet connections, between a switch and a server.
At the switch end, the two interfaces are configured for LACP.
At the server end, they're configured as normal ethernet interfaces.
How do the switch interfaces behave?
I believe that they'll behave as two normal ethernet interfaces and forward the traffic in parallel to the server as if they had no LACP config applied to them. The server will pick one interface and use it for outbound traffic.
The switch interfaces might be configured for LACP but until they form an LACP trunk with the server end interfaces, nothing happens to the normal traffic. In reality it's halving the bandwidth available between them because they're both forwarding the same traffic.
Is this correct please?

Situation: two ethernet connections, between a switch and a server.
At the switch end, the two interfaces are configured for LACP.
At the server end, they're configured as normal ethernet interfaces.
How do the switch interfaces behave?
I believe that they'll behave as two normal ethernet interfaces and forward the traffic in parallel to the server as if they had no LACP config applied to them. The server will pick one interface and use it for outbound traffic.
The switch interfaces might be configured for LACP but until they form an LACP trunk with the server end interfaces, nothing happens to the normal traffic. In reality it's halving the bandwidth available between them because they're both forwarding the same traffic.
Is this correct please?

Edit: The interfaces are configured as outbound mirrored ports.

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How do interfaces behave in a single-ended LACP configuration?

Situation: two ethernet connections, between a switch and a server.
At the switch end, the two interfaces are configured for LACP.
At the server end, they're configured as normal ethernet interfaces.
How do the switch interfaces behave?
I believe that they'll behave as two normal ethernet interfaces and forward the traffic in parallel to the server as if they had no LACP config applied to them. The server will pick one interface and use it for outbound traffic.
The switch interfaces might be configured for LACP but until they form an LACP trunk with the server end interfaces, nothing happens to the normal traffic. In reality it's halving the bandwidth available between them because they're both forwarding the same traffic.
Is this correct please?