NETGEAR GS748TS - ProSafe 48 Port Gigabit Stackable Smart Switch, User Manual

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GS748T Software User Manual
Configuring the Switch 4-11
v2.0, April 2007
Selecting a Management VLAN
1. From the main Navigation Pane menu, select:
Switch
→
VLAN
→
Management VLAN ; the Management VLAN window appears.
2. In the Management VLAN ID window, select the VID that you want to use for switch
management.
3. Click Apply
Creating Port Trunks to Increase Link Bandwidth
Port Trunking (otherwise known as Port Aggregation) enables multiple links between switches to
work as one virtual link (aggregate link) to provide greater bandwidth than would be available by
confining the traffic to a single port. Trunks can be defined for similar port types only. For
example, a 10/100 port cannot form a Port Trunk with a gigabit port. Trunks can only be formed
within the same bank. A bank is a set of ports, such as ports 1 to 8, ports 9 to 16, or 17 to 20, on the
same switch unit. Up to ten trunks can be operating at the same time.
Trunking groups in the Trunk Table are set disabled by default. For each trunk group, trunk
members are pre-set for selection. The following diagram shows a typical port trunking
arrangement.