Black Box LB9216A, LB9219A, LB9215A, LB9214A, LB9218A manual MAC-based Trunking & Settings

Express Ethernet Switch LB9217A-R2 & Applicable Modules

MAC-based Trunking & Settings

Trunking is also called link aggregation, which serves as a shortcut to increase the bandwidth on your network. Trunking is a method of physically linking together several ports to act as a single port with higher bandwidth. This functionality allows scaling of bandwidth.

The 17-Port Switch supports trunking of up to 4 ports, either 2-port or 4-port. For a 100BaseTX/FX network, you will gain 400Mbps bandwidth when you trunk two ports, each of 200Mbps. The more ports you trunk, the more bandwidth you gain.

Follow these steps to configure the 2-porttrunking.

yMove the cursor to TRUNK column

yMove the cursor and select port 1

yPress [SPACE] and show T to port1 and port2

yPress [ENTER] to apply and save the setting

<NOTE> Can only choose port1 and port2 for 2-port trunking

Follow these steps to configure the 4-porttrunking.

yMove the cursor to TRUNK column

yMove the cursor and select port 1

yPress [SPACE] and show T to port1 and port2

yMove the cursor and select port 3

yPress [SPACE] and show T to port3 and port4

yPress [ENTER] to apply and save the setting

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