5.
Select Switch Discovery.
The Switch Discovery page displays.
6.
Enable or disable NSDP by clicking the button in the NSDP section.
When NSDP is enabled, the button displays blue. When NSDP is disabled, the button displays white.
7.
Click the APPLY button.
Your settings are saved.
Set Up Static Link Aggregation
Static link aggregation on the switch allows you to combine multiple Ethernet ports into a single logical link.
Your network devices treat the aggregation as if it were a single link. Depending on how link aggregation is
set up in your network, the link supports either increased bandwidth (a larger pipe) or fault tolerance (if one
port fails another, one takes over).
The switch supports two static LAGs with up to four ports each. That means that one static LAG can support
a link of up to 4 Gbps.
The switch does not support Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).
Note
You set up static link aggregation on the switch through link aggregation groups (LAG)s in the following
order:
1.
Connect the ports that you intend to make members of a LAG on the switch to the ports that are members
of a LAG on another device in your network (see
Make a Link Aggregation Connection
on page 48).
2.
Set up the LAG on the switch (see
Set Up Link Aggregation Groups
on page 49).
Make a Link Aggregation Connection
Before you set up a link aggregation group (LAG) on the switch (see
Set Up Link Aggregation Groups
page 49), you must make a physical link aggregation connection to another network device (usually a router
or another switch) that also supports link aggregation. If you do not, the LAG cannot take effect. Whether
a LAG on the switch functions to support increased bandwidth or fault tolerance depends on the LAG
configuration on the other network device.
All ports that participate in a LAG (that is, the ports on both devices) must use the same speed, duplex
mode, and flow control setting. For information about changing these settings on the switch, see
on page 37.
To make link aggregation connections between the switch and other network devices:
1.
Using Ethernet cables, connect each port that you intend to made a member of LAG 1 on the switch to
each port that is member of the same LAG on another network device.
LAG 1 can include ports 1 through 4. The port numbers on the other network device do not matter as
long as the ports on the other network device are members of the same LAG and the LAG consists of
the same total number of ports.
2.
Using Ethernet cables, connect each port that you intend to made a member of LAG 2 on the switch to
each port that is member of the same LAG on another network device.
Manage the Switch in Your Network
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Nighthawk S8000 Gaming & Streaming Advanced 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch (GS808E)
