4-18 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide

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Figure 4-2 shows the four interfaces after trunking into a multiple-mode trunk called
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There are two kinds of trunks:
Single-mode trunks enable one link to fail over to another link.
Multiple-mode trunks enable faster throughput by having links share network
loads.
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