Definice
Alinkisaphysicallinefromanodetoanadjacentnodewithoutanyotherswitchingnodesinthemiddle.
Indatacommunication,thepathbetweentwocomputersisoftenformedbyaseriesofmanylinks.
Složení
Alinkiscomposedofnodesatbothendsandcommunicationlinesbetweenthenodes.
Rozdíl
Theconceptoflink(physicallink)isdifferentfromthatofdatalink.Inadditiontophysicallines,datalinksmustalsohaveacommunicationprotocoltocontrolthetransmissionofthesedata.Itisthedatalinkthataddsthehardwareandsoftwarethatimplementtheseprotocolstothelink.Datalinkisalsocalledlogicallink.
Klasifikace
Accordingtotheconnectionmethodofthecommunicationlink,thecommunicationlinkcanbedividedintothefollowingtwocategories:
Point-to-pointconnectioncommunicationLink,linkatentokrátpropojujepouzedvauzly.
Multipointconnectionlinkreferstohowmany(n>2)nodesareconnectedbyonelink.
Accordingtodifferentcommunicationmethods,linkscanbedividedintothefollowingtwocategories:
Jednosměrná komunikace
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Obousměrná komunikace
Accordingtothedifferentcapacity,thelinkisdividedintothefollowingtwocategories:
Komunikační spojení bez kapacity
Komunikační spojení s kapacitou
EthernetlinkAggregation
LinkaggregationistheaggregationofmultiplephysicalEthernetportstogethertoformalogicalaggregationgroup.Theupperlayerentitythatusesthelinkaggregationservicecombinesmultiplephysicallinksinthesameaggregationgroup.Thinkofitasalogicallink.
Linkaggregationcanrealizetheloadsharingofinbound/outboundloadamongthememberportsintheaggregationgrouptoincreasebandwidth.Atthesametime,eachmemberportofthesameaggregationgroupdynamicallybacksupeachother,whichimprovesconnectionreliability.
Device AandDevice BareconnectedthroughthreephysicalEthernetlinks,andthesethreelinksarebundledtogethertobecomealogicallinkLink aggregation 1,thebandwidthofthislogicallinkItisequaltothesumofthebandwidthoftheoriginalthreeEthernetphysicallinks,thusachievingthepurposeofincreasingthelinkbandwidth;atthesametime,thesethreeEthernetphysicallinksbackupeachother,whicheffectivelyimprovesthereliabilityofthelink.