Husky HME-423E - Manual (Page 31)

Configuration Using a Web Browser
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After finishing necessary configurations, click on Apply to save the settings.
4-6.10 Port Trunking
Port trunking is the combination of several ports or network cables to expand the connection speed beyond
the limits of any one single port or network cable. Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), which is a
protocol running on layer 2, provides a standardized means in accordance with IEEE 802.3ad to bundle
several physical ports together to form a single logical channel. All the ports within the logical channel or
so-called logical aggregator work at the same connection speed and LACP operation requires full-duplex
mode.
4-6.10.1 Aggregator Settings
System Priority
This value is used to identify the active LACP. The switch with the
lowest value has the highest priority and is selected as the active
LACP peer of the trunk group.
Group ID
There are 3 trunk groups available for configuration. The
administrator can assign the Group ID to the trunk group.
LACP
When enabled, the trunk group is using LACP. A port which joins an
LACP trunk group has to make an agreement with its member ports
first. Please notice that a trunk group, including member ports
distributed between two switches, has to enable the LACP function
of the two switches. When disabled, the trunk group is a static trunk
group. The advantage of having the LACP disabled is that a port
joins the trunk group without any handshaking with its member
ports; but member ports won’t know that they should be aggregated
together to form a logic trunk group.
Work Ports
This column field allows the administrator to type in the total
number of active ports up to four. With LACP trunk group, e.g. you
assign four ports to be the members of a trunk group whose work
ports column field is set as two; the exceed ports are
standby/redundant ports and can be aggregated if working ports
fail. If it is a static trunk group (non-LACP), the number of work ports
must equal the total number of group member ports.