Chapter 3 Configuring the Device
32 User’s Guide
CONFIGURING AGGREGATE INTERFACESThe NetScreen-5000 Series device allows you to combine two or more physical ports into a
single virtual port. This virtual port is known as an aggregate interface. Only Secure Port
Modules (SPMs) support this feature.
•On a 5000-8G SPM, you can create up to four aggregate interfaces.
•On a 5000-2G24FE SPM, you can create up to five aggregate interfaces.
The 5000-8G SPM supports only certain combinations of ports for aggregate interfaces.
For example, a 5000-8G SPM residing in slot 2 only supports the following port
combinations:
•Ethernet2/1 and Ethernet2/2
•Ethernet2/3 and Ethernet2/4
•Ethernet2/5 and Ethernet2/6
•Ethernet2/7 and Ethernet2/8
You must assign one of the following names to the aggregate interface: aggregate1,
aggregate2, aggregate3, or aggregate4.
In the following example, you combine two Gigabit Ethernet mini-GBIC ports, each
running at 1 Gbps, into an aggregate interface running at 2 Gbps. The aggregate interface
consists of Ethernet ports 1 and 2 on a 5000-8G SPM (residing in slot 2).
To create the aggregate interface:
1. (Optional) To see what physical ports are available on your NetScreen-5000
Series device:
get interface
2. To create an aggregate interface name:
set interface string zone zonename
where string is a legal aggregate interface name (aggregate1, aggregate2,
aggregate3, or aggregate4).
For example, to create the aggregate interface name aggregate1:
set interface aggregate1 zone zonename
3. To assign ports ethernet2/1 and ethernet2/2 to the aggregate1 interface name:
set interface ethernet2/1 aggregate aggregate1
set interface ethernet2/2 aggregate aggregate1
4. (Optional) To see the updated port list and details about the new aggregate
interface:
get interface