Using the Telnet Console

Link Aggregation

Link aggregation allows several ports to be grouped together so that they can act as a single port. This is done to either increase the bandwidth of a network connection or to increase fault tolerance.

Link Aggregation is most commonly used to link a bandwidth-intensive network device or devices —such as a server or server farm—to the backbone of a network.

You can configure up to six aggregation groups, each using from two to eight ports between any two ZT8101 switches or other switches that support Etherchannel. Etherchannel is only required for this first release. In the second release, the ports can be from any switch that is compliant with 802.1ad.

To configure a link aggregation group

1.From the Main Menu, select Link Aggregation and press Enter.

2.Configure these fields.

Field

Description

 

 

Group ID

Specifies one of the six possible link aggregation groups configurable on the

switch.

 

 

 

Starting Port

Specifies the first port in the group. This port is called the master port.

 

 

Group Width

Specifies the number of ports, in sequential order from the master port, that

will be included in the link aggregation group.

 

 

 

Status

Enables or disables the link aggregation group.

 

 

3.Highlight APPLY and press Enter.

The table displays the following additional information.

Column

Description

 

 

 

Specifies which member port is the master port. The master port is always

Master

the lowest numbered port. All member ports are configured to use its

 

settings and become members of its VLAN.

 

 

 

Specifies which member port is the anchor port. The anchor port is

Anchor

responsible for the flooding of multicast frames and for sending control

 

packets.

 

 

Layer 3 IP Networking

This section describes how to configure:

IP Interfaces

RIP

Multicast routing protocols

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