SMC Networks SMC6224M manual Creating Trunk Groups, Port/Trunk Configuration

PORT CONFIGURATION

Web – Click Port, Port Configuration or Trunk Configuration. Modify the required interface settings, and click Apply.

Figure 3-41 Port/Trunk Configuration

CLI – Select the interface, and then enter the required settings.

Console(config)#interface ethernet 1/13	4-143
Console(config-if)#description RD SW#13	4-143
Console(config-if)#shutdown	4-148
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Console(config-if)#no shutdown
Console(config-if)#no negotiation	4-145
Console(config-if)#speed-duplex 100half	4-144
Console(config-if)#flowcontrol	4-147
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Console(config-if)#negotiation
Console(config-if)#capabilities 100half	4-146
Console(config-if)#capabilities 100full
Console(config-if)#capabilities flowcontrol

Creating Trunk Groups

You can create multiple links between devices that work as one virtual, aggregate link. A port trunk offers a dramatic increase in bandwidth for network segments where bottlenecks exist, as well as providing a fault-tolerant link between two devices. You can create up to four trunks at a time.

The switch supports both static trunking and dynamic Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP). Static trunks have to be manually configured at both ends of the link, and the switches must comply with the Cisco EtherChannel standard. On the other hand, LACP configured ports can

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