Figure 3.28: Static trunking group of 2 ports on single switch
When you have set up the aggregator setting of two interconnected switches with LACP enabled, you will see the respective LACP trunk group information as below. ‘Actor’ means the switch which is connecting to the host computer.
Figure 3.29: Aggregator Information
State Activity
Having set up the LACP aggregator on the tab of Aggregator Setting, you can configure the state activity for the members of the LACP trunk group. You can tick or cancel the checkbox beside the state display.
When you remove the tick mark to the port and click
Passive.
媖 | , the port state activity will change to |
•Active: The port automatically sends LACP protocol packets.
•Passive: The port does not automatically send LACP protocol packets, and responds only if it receives LACP protocol packets from the opposite device.
Note | A link having either two active LACP nodes or one active node can perform | |
| dynamic LACP trunk. |
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| A link having two passive LACP nodes will not perform dynamic LACP trunk | |
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