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4-6.10 Port Trunking
Port trunking is the combination of several ports or network cables to expand the connection speed beyond the limits of any one single port or network cable. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), which is a protocol running on layer 2, provides a standardized means in accordance with IEEE 802.3ad to bundle several physical ports together to form a single logical channel. All the ports within the logical channel or
4-6.10.1 Aggregator Settings
| This value is used to identify the active LACP. The switch with the | |
System Priority | lowest value has the highest priority and is selected as the active | |
| LACP peer of the trunk group. | |
Group ID | There are 3 trunk groups available for configuration. The | |
administrator can assign the Group ID to the trunk group. | ||
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| When enabled, the trunk group is using LACP. A port which joins an | |
| LACP trunk group has to make an agreement with its member ports | |
| first. Please notice that a trunk group, including member ports | |
| distributed between two switches, has to enable the LACP function | |
LACP | of the two switches. When disabled, the trunk group is a static trunk | |
| group. The advantage of having the LACP disabled is that a port | |
| joins the trunk group without any handshaking with its member | |
| ports; but member ports won’t know that they should be aggregated | |
| together to form a logic trunk group. | |
| This column field allows the administrator to type in the total | |
| number of active ports up to four. With LACP trunk group, e.g. you | |
| assign four ports to be the members of a trunk group whose work | |
Work Ports | ports column field is set as two; the exceed ports are | |
| standby/redundant ports and can be aggregated if working ports | |
| fail. If it is a static trunk group | |
| must equal the total number of group member ports. |
