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Load Balancing practice labs

2 hands-on Load Balancing scenarios you build in your own Cisco Modeling Labs instance and grade against the answer key. Load Balancing configuration and troubleshooting practice for CCNA and CCNP.

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CCNA Foundations: Grow the Bundle & Spread the Load

Daily CCNA campus-redundancy lab focused on EtherChannel scale-out and hashing. Two distribution switches are joined by three parallel trunk links. Two links are already bundled with LACP into a trunking port-channel; the third is a plain trunk currently STP-blocked and wasting capacity. Add the spare link to the existing bundle on both sides and change the global hashing method so multiple flows can actually use multiple member links. End-to-end switching must continue to work for the users VLAN.

CCNA55 min4 objectives

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EtherChannel Load Balancing with LACP (VLAN 60)

Build a two-link LACP EtherChannel between two layer-2 switches as an access port for VLAN 60, then tune the global load-balancing algorithm to src-dst-ip so traffic distributes more evenly. Verify Po6 status, the hashing method, and end-to-end host reachability.

CCNA & CCNP35 min5 objectives