
1000 Mbps connections are always
CAUTION: Before manually setting a port to
You cannot modify the speed/duplex settings of ports that are members of a trunk or aggregated link.
Supported SFP transceivers only operate at 1000 Mbps
Disabling a port that is delivering power will not disable the power being delivered to a connected device.
Link Aggregation
Link aggregation, also called “trunking”, refers to bonding multiple ports into a single group to effectively combine the bandwidth into a single connection or a “trunk”. If you are connecting the Switch to another
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switch or to an Internet backbone, you can aggregate links on the Switch to increase throughput and prevent packet loopback between switches.
For link aggregation to work, the trunks must be configured on both ends (switches).
Four tabs are available on the Port Link Aggregation page:
■Summary
■Create
■Modify
■Remove
Guidelines for Creating Trunks
■Any port on the Switch can be used for creating a trunk.
■The Switch supports a maximum of four trunks.
■Each trunk may contain up to eight members.
■A port may only be a member of one trunk at any one time.
■All ports in a trunk must be configured in an identical manner, including communication mode (that is, speed, duplex mode and flow control).
■Both 10/100 and Gigabit ports cannot be combined as members in a single trunk.