Cisco 887VA using dual Ethernet ports for Aggregation

[Ian Stephens]

We are running a Cisco 887VA router for our internet access but of course the port connected to the internal network only supports 100Mbit/s. 

There are a few 100Mbit/s ports on the router; I was wondering whether it was possible to use more than one port to provide aggregation to get higher speed such as two ports providing 200Mbit/s?  We are running Gigabit internal.

Any ideas on such functionality or what's required for this?

Any help, ideas, tools, tips, config are greatly appreciated.

[paolo bevilacqua · Accepted solution]

Not really. The router CPU is not powerful enough for high speeds.

If you need wire-rate inter-vlan routing, get a layer 3 switch.

[Ian Stephens]

Thank you for your comment Paolo - you're right, we already come to the conclusion that the 887VA can't seem to push more than 90Mbit/s at 1500 bytes.

[paolo bevilacqua]

Thank you for the nice rating and good luck!

[mfurnival]

Even if you could do this what are you going to achieve? I am guessing that your WAN connection to the internet is not more than 100Mb so having 200Mb/sec between your router and switch is not going to make internet access any faster.