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4.3
Aggregation
Use Aggregation to configure the settings of Link Aggregation. Users can bundle more than one port
with the same speed, full duplex and the same MAC to be a single logical port, thus the logical port
aggregates the bandwidth of these ports. For example, if there are three Fast Ethernet ports
aggregated in a logical port, then this logical port has bandwidth three times as high as a single Fast
Ethernet port has.
4.3.1 Static Trunk
Ports using Static Trunk as the trunk method can select the unique Static GroupID to form a logical
“trunked port”. The benefit of using Static Trunk method is that a port can immediately become a
member of a trunk group without any handshaking with its peer port. This is also a disadvantage
because the peer ports of the static trunk group may not know to aggregate together to form a “logical
trunked port”. Allworx strongly recommends using Static Trunk on both ends of a link. Please also note
that low speed links will stay in “not ready” state when using static trunk to aggregate with high speed
links.
To configure the Trunk Aggregation Hash mode and Aggregation Group via the web interface:
1. Navigate to Configuration > Aggregation > Static Trunk.
2. Check the hash code contributors to include.
3. Select the ports for the Group ID that would form a static trunk.
4. Click Apply or click Reset to revert to previously saved values. 0.
Figure 32:
Aggregation Mode Configuration
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