6-14 User Guide for the Avaya P580 and P882 Multiservice Switches, v6.1
Chapter 6
Hunt groups expand the capacity of the core switched backbone. While
there is no specific limit on the number of ports in a hunt group (see “Hunt
Group Configuration Considerations”). In the example, the hunt group
consists of two full-duplex Gigabit Ethernet links shared between two
switches, for an aggregate capaci ty of 4 Gbps. Enterprise-level ser vers can
be directly attached to the switching core using either 100 Mbps or Gigabit
Ethernet connections. Fault-tolerant spanning tree li nks fr om the co re to t he
next level of network spread the distribution and capacity to building or
departmental switching centers. Each of these next-level switches may in
turn support tens (or even hundreds) of work group switches and users.
This section contains the following information and procedures:
■Hunt Group Features
■Hunt Group Terminology
■How Hunt Groups Load Share
■Hunt Group Example
■Optimizing Hunt Group Throughput
■Hunt Group Configuration Considerations
■Hunt Groups and Multicast Traffic
■Creating Hunt Groups
■Adding Ports to the Hunt Group
■Viewing Hunt Group Members
■Removing Ports from Hunt Groups
Hunt Group Features
Hunt group features include:
■Shared traffic load.
■Fault tolerance — If a port in a group fails, the remaining ports in
the group pick up the traffic load.
■Support for any number of same-speed same media type
connections in a group — The group is not restricted to a single
module in a switch.