3Com 3c17300 Implementation Guide - Page 24
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26 CHAPTER 2: OPTIMIZING BANDWIDTH Figure 3 Aggregated - Link Example Aggregated Link Switch C Switch A Switch B Aggregated Link ■ LACP Pre-Configured Aggregations - If you need to know which aggregated link is associated with which device in your network you can use a LACP pre-configured aggregation. This allows you to manually configure the MAC address of a particular partner device (called the partner ID) against a specified aggregated link. LACP will then automatically determine the port membership for that aggregated link. The aggregated link may be manually configured with appropriate configuration settings, such as VLAN membership, to match the partner device. ■ LACP Automatic Aggregations - If LACP detects at least two active ports sharing the same partner device, and if no matching pre-configured aggregated links exist, LACP will automatically assign a free un-configured aggregated link to form an aggregated link with the partner device. The aggregated link will inherit its configuration from the first port originally detected against the partner device. If you have an existing single port connection between two devices, this automatic behavior allows quick and easy addition of extra bandwidth by simply adding an extra physical link between the units. The Spanning Tree costs for a port running LACP is the cost assigned for an aggregated link running at that speed. As required by the IEEE 802.3ad standard, no changes in cost are made according to the number of member links in the aggregated link. By default LACP is disabled on all 10/100/1000BASE-T and GBIC Switch ports.