User’s Manual of FGSW-2620VM / FGSW-2620PVM

4.6 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. The Managed Switch supports two types of port trunk technology:

„Static Trunk

„LACP

The Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) provides a standardized means for exchanging information between Partner Systems on a link to allow their Link Aggregation Control instances to reach agreement on the identity of the Link Aggregation Group to which the link belongs, move the link to that Link Aggregation Group, and enable its transmission and reception functions in an orderly manner. Link aggregation lets you group up to eight consecutive ports into a single dedicated connection. This feature can expand bandwidth to a device on the network. LACP operation requires full-duplex mode, more detail information refers to IEEE 802.3ad.

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