How the Switch Lists Trunk Data

Optimizing Port Usage Through Traffic Control and Port Trunking

Port Trunking

■Depending on the capabilities of the device on the other end of the trunk, negotiate the forwarding mechanism on the trunk to the non-protocol option.

■When auto-negotiated to the SA/DA forwarding mechanism, provide higher performance on the trunk for broadcast, multicast, and flooded traffic through distribution in the same manner as non-protocol trunking.

■Support FEC automatic trunk configuration mode on other devices. That is, when connecting FEC trunks to FEC-capable servers, switches, or routers having FEC automatic trunk configuration mode enabled, the FEC trunks allow these other devices to automatically form trunk groups.

Static Trunk Group: Appears in the menu interface and the output from the CLI show trunk and show interfaces commands.

Dynamic LACP Trunk Group: Appears in the output from the CLI show lacp command.

Interface Option	Dynamic LACP	Static LACP	Static Non-Protocol
	Trunk Group	Trunk Group	or FEC Trunk Group

Menu Interface	No	Yes	Yes
CLI show trunk	No	Yes	Yes
CLI show interfaces	No	Yes	Yes
CLI show lacp	Yes	Yes	No
CLI show spanning-tree	No	Yes	Yes
CLI show igmp	No	Yes	Yes
CLI show config	No	Yes	Yes

Outbound Traffic Distribution Across Trunked Links

All three trunk group options (LACP, Trunk, and FEC) use source-destination address pairs (SA/DA) for distributing outbound traffic over trunked links.

SA/DA (source address/destination address) causes the switch to distribute outbound traffic to the links within the trunk group on the basis of source/ destination address pairs. That is, the switch sends traffic from the same source address to the same destination address through the same trunked link,

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SMC6624M specifications

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SMC Networks SMC6624M manual How the Switch Lists Trunk Data

Models: SMC6624M

Port Trunking