Optimizing Traffic Flow with Port Controls, Port Trunking, and Filters

Port Trunking

“Up” Links

Standby Link

 

Figure 9-11. Example of a Dynamic LACP Trunk with One Standby Link

 

Using the CLI To Configure a Static or Dynamic Trunk Group

 

 

I m p o r t a n t

Configure port trunking before you connect the trunked links between

 

switches. Otherwise, a broadcast storm could occur. (If you need to connect

 

the ports before configuring them for trunking, you can temporarily disable

 

the ports until the trunk is configured. See “Using the CLI To Configure Ports”

 

on page 9-8.)

 

 

On the Series 5300XL Switches you can configure up to 36 port trunk groups having up to four links each (with additional standby links if you’re using LACP). You can configure trunk group types as follows:

Trunk Type

Trunk Group Membership

 

TrkX (Static)

DynX (Dynamic)

 

 

 

LACP

Yes

Yes

Trunk

Yes

No

FEC

Yes

No

 

 

 

The following examples show how to create different types of trunk groups.

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