Extreme Networks 200 Series - Manual (Page 95)

Load Sharing on the Switch
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This feature is available for the address-based load-sharing algorithm, only.
To verify your configuration, use the following command:
show sharing address-based
Configuring Switch Load Sharing
To set up a switch to load share among ports, you must create a load-sharing group of ports. The first
port in the load-sharing group is configured as the “master” logical port. This is the reference port used
in configuration commands. It can be thought of as the logical port representing the entire port group.
The following rules apply to the Summit 200 series switch:
• Ports on the switch must be of the same port type. For example, if you use 100 Mbps ports, all ports
on the switch must be 100 Mbps ports.
• Ports on the switch are divided into a maximum of six groups.
• Port-based and round-robin load sharing algorithms do not apply.
• On stacked configurations, load sharing is not supported through the stacking port. Members of a
load sharing group must reside on the same slot.
To define a load-sharing group, you assign a group of ports to a single, logical port number. To enable
or disable a load-sharing group, use the following commands:
enable sharing <port> grouping <portlist> {address-based}
disable sharing <port>
Load-Sharing Example
This section provides an example of how to define load-sharing on a Summit 200 series switch.
Load-Sharing on a Summit 200 Series Switch
The following example defines a load-sharing group that contains ports 9 through 12, and uses the first
port in the group as the master logical port 9:
mac_source Indicates that the switch should examine the MAC source
address.
mac_destination Indicates that the switch should examine the MAC
destination address.
mac_source_destination Indicates that the switch should examine the MAC source
and destination address.
ip_source Indicates that the switch should examine the IP source
address.
ip_source_destination Indicates that the switch should examine the IP source
address and destination address.
ip_destination Indicates that the switch should examine the IP
destination address.