User`s guide

Signamax 065-7530/065-7540 Full-Duplex Switches
Switch Configuration 31
MAC-based Trunking (16-Port)
The Signamax 065-7530 switch provides a MAC-Based
Trunking function, which is capable of a trunking group of
either 2 to 4 ports. This makes a maximum bandwidth
connection of 800Mbps (Full-Duplex).
The MAC address is the address of the network interface
card. When the packet is transmitting, it will contain the
source address and destination address of the NIC. The
combination of source and destination address give the
switches a direction to determine the trunking ports to
depart from if the destination address is on another
switch.
Trunking Rules
There are some rules for MAC-Based Trunking setting:
a. FO-065-7530 provides two ways of trunking selection:
two port-trunking (Port #s 1 & 5) and four-port
trunking (Port #s 1, 2, 5 & 6), providing a high
bandwidth connection from 400Mbps to 800Mbps.
b. Trunking port setting is only available for Port #s 1, 2,
5, & 6.
c. For MAC-Based Trunking, it requires two MAC-Based
Trunking switches to parallel, and all the trunking
ports must be linked together in order to function
properly. Therefore, one MAC-Based Trunking switch
cannot have the trunking function enabled unless
another MAC-Based Trunking switch has enabled its
trunking ports.