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Web – Click Port, Port Configuration or Trunk Configuration. Modify the
required interface settings, and click Apply.

Figure 3-41 Port/Trunk Configuration

CLI – Select the interface, and then enter the required settings.

Creating Trunk Groups

You can create multiple links between devices that work as one virtual,
aggregate link. A port trunk offers a dramatic increase in bandwidth for
network segments where bottlenecks exist, as well as providing a
fault-tolerant link between two devices. You can create up to four trunks at
a time.

The switch supports both static trunking and dynamic Link Aggregation
Control Protocol (LACP). Static trunks have to be manually configured at
both ends of the link, and the switches must comply with the Cisco
EtherChannel standard. On the other hand, LACP configured ports can

Console(config)#interface ethernet 1/13

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Console(config-if)#description RD SW#13

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Console(config-if)#shutdown

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Console(config-if)#no shutdown
Console(config-if)#no negotiation

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Console(config-if)#speed-duplex 100half

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Console(config-if)#flowcontrol

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Console(config-if)#negotiation
Console(config-if)#capabilities 100half

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Console(config-if)#capabilities 100full
Console(config-if)#capabilities flowcontrol

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