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Commands for Configuring Slots and Ports on a Switch
• Round-robin —When the switch receives a stream of packets, it forwards one packet out of each
physical port in the load-sharing group using a round-robin scheme. The round-robin algorithm is
available only on “
i ” series switches.
Using the round-robin algorithm, packet sequencing between clients is not guaranteed.
If you do not explicitly select an algorithm, the port-based scheme is used. However, the address-based
algorithm has a more even distribution and is the recommended choice.
Example
The following example defines a load-sharing group that contains ports 9 through 12, and uses the first
port in the group as the master logical port on a stand-alone switch:
enable sharing 9 grouping 9-12
The following example defines a load-sharing group that contains ports 9 through 12 on slot 3, ports 7
through 10 on slot 5, and uses the first port on slot 3 as the master logical port 9 on a modular switch:
enable sharing 3:9 grouping 3:9-3:12, 5:7-5:10
In this example, logical port 3:9 represents physical ports 3:9 through 3:12 and 5:7 through 5:10.
History
This command was first available in ExtremeWare 2.0.
The command was modified in ExtremeWare 4.0 to support modular switches.
The command was modified in ExtremeWare 6.0 to support the
algorithm
parameter.
The command was modified in ExtremeWare 7.0.0 to support the
dynamic
parameter.
The command was modified in ExtremeWare 7.1.1 to support cross-module trunking on BlackDiamond
switches.
This command was added to the Summit “ e ” series of switches in ExtremeWare 7.1e.
Platform Availability
This command is available on all platforms.