Accton Technology ES4548D, ES4524D, 24/48-Port manual Trunk Load Balance Mode

17 Creating Trunk Groups

•Destination MAC Address: All traffic with the same destination MAC address is output on the same link in a trunk. This mode works best for switch-to-switch trunk links where traffic through the switch is destined for many different hosts. Do not use this mode for switch-to-router trunk links where the destination MAC address is the same for all traffic.

•Source IP Address: All traffic with the same source IP address is output on the same link in a trunk. This mode works best for switch-to-router or switch-to-server trunk links where traffic through the switch is received from many different hosts.

•Destination IP Address: All traffic with the same destination IP address is output on the same link in a trunk. This mode works best for switch-to-router trunk links where traffic through the switch is destined for many different hosts. Do not use this mode for switch-to-server trunk links where the destination IP address is the same for all traffic.

•Source and Destination MAC Address: All traffic with the same source and destination MAC address is output on the same link in a trunk. This mode works best for switch-to-switch trunk links where traffic through the switch is received from and destined for many different hosts.

•Source and Destination IP Address: All traffic with the same source and destination IP address is output on the same link in a trunk. This mode works best for switch-to-router trunk links where traffic through the switch is received from and destined for many different hosts.

Command Attributes

•Trunk Load Balance Mode – Selects the load-balance method to apply to all trunks on the switch. (Default: Src-Dst-IP)

-Dst-IP– Load balancing based on destination IP address.

-Dst-MAC– Load balancing based on destination MAC address.

-Src-Dst-IP– Load balancing based on source and destination IP address.

-Src-Dst-MAC– Load balancing based on source destination MAC address.

-Src-IP– Load balancing based on source IP address.

-Src-MAC– Load balancing based on source MAC address.

Web – Click Port, Trunk Configuration. From the drop-down menu, select the load-balance method to apply to all trunks on the switch. Click Apply.

Figure 17-2 Trunk Load Balance Mode

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