Black Box LPB2910A, User Manual

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Publication date: Sept, 2015
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2-­‐6 Aggregation
Aggregation is used to configure the settings of Link Aggregation. You can bundle more than one port
with the same speed, full duplex, and the same MAC to be a single logical port, so the logical port
aggregates the bandwidth of these ports. This means you can use your current Ethernet equipment to
build the bandwidth aggregation. 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.
2-­‐6.1 Static
Ports using Static Trunk as their trunk method can choose their unique Static GroupID to form a logic
“trunked port.” The benefit of using the 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 your static trunk group may not know that they should aggregate together
to form a “logical trunked port.” Using Static Trunk on both end of a link is strongly recommended.
NOTE: Low speed links will stay in “not ready” state when using static trunk to aggregate with high
speed links.
Web Interface
To configure the Trunk Aggregation Hash mode and Aggregation Group in the web interface:
1. Click Configuration, Aggregation, Static, and then Aggregation Mode Configuration.
2. Enable or disable the aggregation mode function.
Enable Aggregation Group ID and Port members.
3. Click save to save the setting.
4. If you want to cancel the setting, click the reset button. It will revert to previously saved values.
Figure 2-­‐6.1: The Aggregation Mode Configuration