Technical data

Using the BayStack 350 Series 10/100 Autosense Switch
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MultiLink Trunking
The MultiLink Trunking feature allows a user to group multiple ports (up to four)
together when forming a link to another switch or server, thus increasing
aggregate throughput of the interconnection between two devices, up to 800 Mb/s
in full-duplex mode. BayStack 350 switches can be configured with up to eight
MultiLink Trunks.
The switch supports a load balancing function that allows the switch to spread
traffic evenly across trunk members (ports that comprise a trunk), whenever
possible, to achieve the highest aggregate throughput. In addition, the MultiLink
Trunking software can detect misconfigured (or broken) trunk links. If this
happens, the software redirects all traffic on the misconfigured or broken trunk
member to other trunk members within that trunk.
The trunk members form a physical collection of ports that are treated as a single
logical link of higher bandwidth by the spanning tree protocol (STP) and the
learning, forwarding, and filtering functions.
For more information about the MultiLink Trunking feature, see “M
ultiLink
Trunks” on page 1-22.
Port Mirroring
The Port Mirroring feature (sometimes referred to as conversation steering)
allows a user to designate a single switch port as a traffic monitor for up to two
specified ports or two media access control (MAC) addresses.
You can specify Port-Based monitoring, where all traffic on specified ports is
monitored, or Address-Based monitoring, where traffic between specified MAC
addresses is monitored.
You can attach a probe device (such as a Bay Networks StackProbe, or equivalent)
to the designated monitor port. The designated port can monitor all traffic on the
network segment connected to the mirrored port. Error packets can also be
monitored and copied to the mirrored port for network troubleshooting.
For more information about the mirroring feature, see “P
ort Mirroring
(Conversation Steering)” on page 1-43.