3Com 2928 - Baseline Plus Switch PWR, User Manual

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Field/button Description
Inactive Reason
Reason code indicating why a port is inactive (that is, unselected) for
receiving/transmitting user data. For the meanings of the reason codes,
see the bottom of the page shown in Figure 1-4 .
Partner Port Name of the peer port
Partner Port State
State information of the peer port, represented by letters A through H.
z
A indicates that LACP is enabled.
z
B indicates that LACP short timeout has occurred. If B does not
appear, it indicates that LACP long timeout has occurred.
z
C indicates that the link is considered as aggregatable by the sending
system.
z
D indicates that the link is considered as synchronized by the sending
system.
z
E indicates that the sending system considers that collection of
incoming frames is enabled on the link.
z
F indicates that the sending system considers that distribution of
outgoing frames is enabled on the link.
z
G indicates that the receive state machine of the sending system is
using the default operational partner information.
z
H indicates that the receive state machine of the sending system is in
the expired state.
Oper Key Operational key of the local port
Table 1-8 describes the fields in the
Partner Port Details
table
Table 1-8
Fields in the Partner Port Details table
Field Description
Unit Number of the remote system
Port Name of the remote port
Partner ID LACP priority and MAC address of the remote system
Partner Port Priority LACP priority of the remote port
Partner Oper Key Operational key of the remote port
Return to
Dynamic aggregation group configuration task list .
Link Aggregation and LACP Configuration Example
Network requirements
As shown in Figure 1-5 , Switch A and Switch B are connected to each other through their Layer 2
Ethernet ports GigabitEthernet 1/0/1 through GigabitEthernet 1/0/3.
Aggregate the ports on each device to form a link aggregation group, thus balancing incoming/outgoing
traffic across the member ports.