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that belong to the same aggregation group can be considered as a logical link with bigger
bandwidth.
Link aggregation can realize sharing responsibility of communication flow among each member
port in the aggregation group, which is to increase bandwidth. Meanwhile, mutual dynamic backup
can be realized among each member port in the same aggregation group, which is to improve the
link reliability.
There must be certain configurations for member ports which belong to the same aggregation
group. These configurations include STP, QoS, VLAN, port properties, MAC address study, mirroring,
802.1x and MAC filtering.
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The link aggregation is mutually exclusive with STP mode. When STP mode is enabled, link
aggregation cannot be configured. You must disable STP mode before configuring link
aggregation.
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We do not recommend implementing configuration and advanced functions for the ports which
are used for link aggregation.
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Link aggregation can be divided into static aggregation and LACP. Generally, the peer devices
with the switch link aggregation are switch and network adapter.
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Only the ports with the same speed rate, duplex, long distance and VLAN configuration can be in
the one aggregation group.
5.3.1 Static Aggregation Mode
Static aggregation mode allows manually adding several member ports in the aggregation group.
All the ports are in the forward status and share the overloaded flow. Creating aggregation group
and adding member ports need to be manually configured without the participation of LACP (link
Aggregation Control Protocol) protocol message.
Step 1
Select
Device Management
>
Link Aggregation
on the
System Info
page.
Step 2
Configure
Link Aggregation Mode
.
Table 4-5 Description of link aggregation mode.
Parameters
Description
Source MAC
Link aggregation calculation based on the source MAC address of packet.
Destination MAC
Link aggregation calculation based on the destination MAC address of
packet.
MAC Src&Dst
Link aggregation calculation based on source and destination MAC
address of packet.
Step 3
Click
Save
.
Step 4
Select
Link Group
.
For example, select
Link Group 1
.
Link Group is an assembly of a group of Ethernet ports. The supported number of link
group is three by default, which can't be changed. The default status of all the link groups
is
Disable
, and member port is null by default.
Step 5
Select member port.
For example, select port P1 and P2.
