Port trunking, Aggregation setting – Comtrol ES8509-XT User Manual
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Port Trunking
Port Trunking allows you to group multiple Ethernet ports in
parallel to increase link bandwidth. The aggregated ports can be
viewed as a physical port that has a bandwidth equal to the
combined bandwidth of each trunked port.The member ports of
the same trunk group can balance the loading and backup for
each other. The Port Trunking feature is usually used when you
need higher bandwidth for the network backbone. This is an
inexpensive way for you to transfer more data.
The aggregated ports can interconnect to the another switch
that also supports Port Trunking. Comtrol supports two types of
port trunking:
•
Static Trunk
•
IEEE 802.3ad
There are some different descriptions for the port trunking. Different manufacturers may use different
descriptions for their products, like Link Aggregation Group (LAG), Link Aggregation Control Protocol,
Ethernet Trunk, or Ether Channel.
When the other end uses IEEE 802.3ad LACP, you should assign IEEE 802.3ad LACP to the trunk. When the
other end uses non-802.3ad, you can then use Static Trunk.
There are two pages for port trunking,
on Page 72 and
Aggregation Setting