NETGEAR GS748TS-100NAS, GS748TNA user manual Creating Port Trunks to Increase Link Bandwidth

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GS748T Software User Manual

Selecting a Management VLAN

1.From the main Navigation Pane menu, select:

Switch VLAN Management VLAN; the Management VLAN window appears.

2.In the Management VLAN ID window, select the VID that you want to use for switch management.

3.Click Apply

Creating Port Trunks to Increase Link Bandwidth

Port Trunking (otherwise known as Port Aggregation) enables multiple links between switches to work as one virtual link (aggregate link) to provide greater bandwidth than would be available by confining the traffic to a single port. Trunks can be defined for similar port types only. For example, a 10/100 port cannot form a Port Trunk with a gigabit port. Trunks can only be formed within the same bank. A bank is a set of ports, such as ports 1 to 8, ports 9 to 16, or 17 to 20, on the same switch unit. Up to ten trunks can be operating at the same time.

Trunking groups in the Trunk Table are set disabled by default. For each trunk group, trunk members are pre-set for selection. The following diagram shows a typical port trunking arrangement.

Configuring the Switch

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NETGEAR GS748TS-100NAS, GS748TNA user manual Creating Port Trunks to Increase Link Bandwidth, Selecting a Management Vlan