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Load balancing is automatically applied to the ports in the aggregated group, and a link failure within the group
causes the network traffic to be directed to the remaining links in the group.
The Spanning Tree Protocol will treat a link aggregation group as a single link, on the switch level. On the port
level, the STP will use the port parameters of the Master Port in the calculation of port cost and in determining the
state of the link aggregation group. If two redundant link aggregation groups are configured on the Switch, STP will
block one entire group, in the same way STP will block a single port that has a redundant link.
Link Aggregation
To configure port trunking, click L2 Features > Trunking > Link Aggregation to bring up the following window:
Figure 7- 8. Link Aggregation window
To configure port trunk groups, click the Add button to add a new trunk group and use the Link Aggregation
Settings menu (see example below) to set up trunk groups. To modify a port trunk group, click the hyperlinked
group number corresponding to the entry you wish to alter. To delete a port trunk group, click the corresponding
under the Delete heading in the Link Aggregation Group Entries table (at the bottom of the Link Aggregation
window).
Figure 7- 9. Link Aggregation Settings window – Add