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Ports: Traffic Control
and Trunking
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Optimizing Port Usage Through Traffic Control and Port Trunking
Chapter Contents
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Menu: Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . 11-5
CLI: Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . . 11-6
Web: Viewing Port Status and Configuring Port Parameters . . . . . . 11-9
Port Trunking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
Switch 4108GL Port Trunk Features and Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-11
Trunk Configuration Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
Menu: Viewing and Configuring a Static Trunk Group . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16
CLI: Viewing and Configuring a Static or Dynamic Port
Trunk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18
Using the CLI To View Port Trunks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18
Using the CLI To Configure a Static or Dynamic Trunk Group 11-21
Web: Viewing Existing Port Trunk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-24
Trunk Group Operation Using LACP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-25
Default Port Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-27
LACP Notes and Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-28
Trunk Group Operation Using the “Trunk” Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-28
Trunk Operation Using the “FEC” Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-29
How the Switch Lists Trunk Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-29
Outbound Traffic Distribution Across Trunked Links . . . . . . . . . . . 11-30