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Port Trunking Group Window, Link Aggregation, Configuration, Link Aggreation Group

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DGS-3048 Gigabit Ethernet Switch Manual 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 uplinked 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 four link aggregation groups, each group consisting of 2 to 8 links (ports). The aggregated links must be contiguous (they must have sequential port numbers) except the two (optional) Gigabit ports, which can only belong to a single link aggregation group. All of the ports in the group must be members of the same VLAN, and their STP status, static multicast, traffic control, traffic segmentation and 802.1p default priority configurations must be identical. Port locking, port mirroring and 802.1x must not be enabled on the trunk group. Further, the aggregated links must all be of the same speed and should be configured as full duplex. 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. To configure port trunking, click on the Link Aggregation hyperlink in the Configuration folder to bring up the following window: Figure 8- 10. Port Trunking Group Window To configure port trunk groups, click the Add button to add a new trunk group and use the Link Aggreation Group Configuration. window to set up trunk groups. To modify a port trunk group, click the Modify button corresponding to the entry you wish to alter. To delete a port trunk group, click the corresponding Trunking Group Entries table. under the Delete heading in the Current 56

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DGS-3048 Gigabit Ethernet Switch Manual
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
uplinked 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 four link aggregation groups, each group consisting of 2 to 8 links (ports). The
aggregated links must be contiguous (they must have sequential port numbers) except the two (optional) Gigabit ports,
which can only belong to a single link aggregation group. All of the ports in the group must be members of the same VLAN,
and their STP status, static multicast, traffic control, traffic segmentation and 802.1p default priority configurations must be
identical. Port locking, port mirroring and 802.1x must not be enabled on the trunk group. Further, the aggregated links must
all be of the same speed and should be configured as full duplex.
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.
To configure port trunking, click on the
Link Aggregation
hyperlink in the
Configuration
folder to bring up the following
window:
Figure 8- 10. Port Trunking Group Window
To configure port trunk groups, click the
Add
button to add a new trunk group and use the
Link Aggreation Group
Configuration
. window to set up trunk groups. To modify a port trunk group, click the
Modify
button corresponding to the
entry you wish to alter. To delete a port trunk group, click the corresponding
under the Delete heading in the Current
Trunking Group Entries table.
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