3Com 2928 User Guide - Page 247

Field/button Inactive Reason Partner Port Partner Port State Oper Key Description Reason code indicating why a port is inactive (that is, unselected) for receiving/transmitting user data. For the meanings of the reason codes, see the bottom of the page shown in Figure 1-4. Name of the peer port State information of the peer port, represented by letters A through H. z A indicates that LACP is enabled. z B indicates that LACP short timeout has occurred. If B does not appear, it indicates that LACP long timeout has occurred. z C indicates that the link is considered as aggregatable by the sending system. z D indicates that the link is considered as synchronized by the sending system. z E indicates that the sending system considers that collection of incoming frames is enabled on the link. z F indicates that the sending system considers that distribution of outgoing frames is enabled on the link. z G indicates that the receive state machine of the sending system is using the default operational partner information. z H indicates that the receive state machine of the sending system is in the expired state. Operational key of the local port Table 1-8 describes the fields in the Partner Port Details table Table 1-8 Fields in the Partner Port Details table Field Unit Port Partner ID Partner Port Priority Partner Oper Key Description Number of the remote system Name of the remote port LACP priority and MAC address of the remote system LACP priority of the remote port Operational key of the remote port Return to Dynamic aggregation group configuration task list. Link Aggregation and LACP Configuration Example Network requirements As shown in Figure 1-5, Switch A and Switch B are connected to each other through their Layer 2 Ethernet ports GigabitEthernet 1/0/1 through GigabitEthernet 1/0/3. Aggregate the ports on each device to form a link aggregation group, thus balancing incoming/outgoing traffic across the member ports. 1-10