Waters Network Systems GSM2109-1009-8PoE User’s Manual
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5.18 Port
Trunking
The Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) provides a standardized means for
exchanging information between partner systems. The systems have to reach an
agreement on the identity of the Link Aggregation Group to which the link belongs, move
the link to that Link Aggregation Group and enable its transmission and reception
functions. Link aggregation allows you to group up to eight consecutive ports into a
single dedicated connection. This feature can expand bandwidth to a device on the
network. LACP operation requires
full duplex
mode.
Aggregator setting
involves
the following:
System priority
– a value used to identify the active LACP. The switch with the
lowest value has the highest priority and is selected as the active LACP.
Group ID
– There are four trunk groups for configuration.
LACP
– When enabled, the group is LACP static trunk group. If disabled, the group
is local static trunk group. The advantage of LACP disabled is that a port joins the
trunk group without any handshaking with its member ports. But, member ports
won’t know that they should be aggregated together to form a logic trunk group. .
Work Ports
– A maximum of four ports can be aggregated at the same time.
•
Select
the ports to join the trunk group. With LACP static trunk group, four ports
are assigned to be the members of a trunk group who work ports field is set as
two; the other two ports are standby. (The
LACP State Activity
will display
Passive
on the tab for
State Activity
. Use the
Add
button to add the port. To
remove unwanted ports, select the port and click
Remove
.
If LACP is enabled, you can configure the LACP Active/Passive status in each port
on the state activity page.
Click
apply
to confirm the setting.
The Trunk Group can be deleted by selecting the
Group ID
and clicking
Delete
.
