4.5 Trunking

The Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) provides a standardized means for exchanging information between Partner Systems on a link to allow their Link Aggregation Control instances to reach agreement on the identity of the Link Aggregation Group to which the link belongs, move the link to that Link Aggregation Group, and enable its transmission and reception functions in an orderly manner. In conclusion, Link aggregation lets you group up to eight consecutive ports into a single dedicated connection. This feature can expand bandwidth to a device on the network. LACP operation requires full-duplex mode, more detail information refers to IEEE 802.3ad.

4.5.1 Aggregator setting

System Priority: A value used to identify the active LACP. The switch with the lowest value has the highest priority and is selected as the active LACP.

1.Group ID: There are seven trunk groups to provided configure. Choose the "group id" and click "Get".

2.LACP: If enable, the group is LACP static trunking group. If

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