6-10 Sun Fire™ B1600 Chassis and B100s, B100x, and B200x Blade Product Notes • May 2004
■The pages of the web GUI include options for configuring an HTTPS server.This
functionality is not enabled in the current release of the switch firmware.
■The web GUI (Switch Config=>Address Tables=>NETMGTPort ID) cannot
display the MAC address table for the NETMGT port. This table is always empty.
There is currently no workaround for this problem.
■The web GUI (Switch Config=>Spanning Tree=>View=>MSTinstance
configuration
=>MST Instance Setup) the multiple spanning tree options are not
configurable in the current release ofthe switch firmware.
6.3 The Term “Trunk” Meaning Either anAggregated Link Or a TaggedVLANConnection
There is confusion in the networking industry over the term "trunking" because it is
used to referboth to link aggregation and to tagged VLAN connections between two
switches. In the first of these senses it means a redundanthigh-bandwidth path
between two switches. In the second it means a network connection on a LAN
segment that is populated only with VLAN-aware devices.

6.3.1 Aggregated Links

Youmay have encountered the term “trunking” in the sense of link aggregation if
you have used the Sun Trunking1.2.1 product.
Ports can be statically grouped into an aggregatelink to increase the bandwidth of a
network connection or to ensure fault recovery.Alternatively, you can use the Link
Aggregation ControlProtocol (LACP) which automatically negotiates an aggregated
link between the switch and another network device. For static aggregatedlinks, the
switches must be of the same type. For dynamic aggregated links, the switches
simply have to comply with LACP.The switch in the blade system chassis supports
up to six aggregated links. An aggregated link consisting of two 1000 Mbps ports
can support an aggregate bandwidth of 4 Gbps when operating at full duplex.