Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface Template Formats
- Web-based (GUI) Configuration
- Configuration
- Device Information
- System Information
- Serial Port Settings
- IP Address Settings
- IPv6 Address Settings
- IPv6 Route Settings
- IPv6 Neighbor Settings
- Port Configuration Folder
- Static ARP Settings
- User Accounts
- System Log Configuration Folder
- DHCP Relay Folder
- MAC Address Aging Time
- Web Settings
- Telnet Settings
- CLI Paging Settings
- Firmware Information
- SNTP Settings Folder
- SMTP Settings Folder
- SNMP Settings Folder
- Layer 2 Features
- Jumbo Frame
- VLANs
- 802.1Q Static VLAN
- Q-in-Q Folder
- 802.1v Protocol VLAN Folder
- GVRP Settings
- Asymmetric VLAN Settings
- MAC-based VLAN Settings
- PVID Auto Assign Settings
- Port Trunking
- LACP Port Settings
- Traffic Segmentation
- IGMP Snooping Folder
- MLD Snooping Settings
- Port Mirror
- Loopback Detection Settings Page
- Spanning Tree Folder
- Forwarding & Filtering Folder
- LLDP Folder
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Security
- Access Control List (ACL)
- Monitoring
- Save and Tools
- System Log Entries
- Trap List
Port Trunking
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Port Trunking
Understanding Port Trunk Groups
Port trunk groups are used to combine a number of ports together to make a single high-bandwidth
data pipeline. The Switch supports up to eight port trunk groups with two to eight ports in each group.
The Switch treats all ports in a trunk group as a single port. Data transmitted to a specific host
(destination address) will always be transmitted over the same port in a trunk group. This allows
packets in a data stream to arrive in the same order they were sent.
NOTE
If any ports within the trunk group become disconnected, packets intended for the disconnected port will
be load shared among the other linked ports of the link aggregation group.
Link aggregation allows several ports to be grouped together and to act as a single link. This gives a
bandwidth that is a multiple of a single link's bandwidth.
Link aggregation is most commonly used to link a bandwidth intensive network device or devices, such
as a server, to the backbone of a network.
The Switch allows the creation of up to eight link aggregation groups, each group consisting of two to
eight links (ports). All of the ports in the group must be members of the same VLAN, and their STP