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4.11 Trunk Setting

Port trunk allows multiple links to be bundled together and act as a single physical link for

increased throughput. It provides load balancing, and redundancy of links in a switched

inter-network. Actually, the link does not have an inherent total bandwidth equal to the sum

of its component physical links.

Traffic in a trunk is distributed across an individual link within the trunk in a deterministic

method that called a hash algorithm. The hash algorithm automatically applies load

balancing to the ports in the trunk. A port failure within the trunk group causes the network

traffic to be directed to the remaining ports. Load balancing is maintained whenever a link in

a trunk is lost or returned to service. This switch may use Port ID, Source MAC Address,

Destination MAC Address, or a combination of Source MAC Address and Destination MAC

Address to be the selection for Trunk Hash Algorithm.

Traffic pattern on the network should be considered carefully before applying it. When a

proper hash algorithm is used, traffic is kind of randomly decided to be transmitted across

either link within the trunk and load balancing will be seen.

This switch supports one trunk group, port 9 and Port 10. Trunk hash algorithm support

Source MAC, Source & Destination MAC Address.

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