24 Port Fast Ethernet Web Management Switch User Manual
the bandwidth aggregation. For example, if there are three Fast Ethernet ports aggregated in a
logical port, then this logical port has bandwidth three times as high as a single Fast Ethernet
port has
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System priority: configure priority of the switch, enter number 1-65535, the default is 1.
The number shows the main counter of LACP protocol. When two devices are connected,
the higher priority device undertakes the main count. If the two devices are configured
the same, there is no difference whoever counts, but if the two devices are configured
different, the result maybe different whoever counts. The default is 1
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Link aggregation algorithm: including two algorithms: MAC Src&Dst and MAC Source.
Link aggregation is counted by this algorithm. The value represent, when a data message
want to pass aggregation channel, the CPU must figure out which port the data message
pass through.
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Member: port1-port8 is divided into two link group, port1-port4 is group1 and
port5-port8 is group2. You may select one or some of these ports as link group
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State: enable or disable link aggregation state
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Type: including LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) and static. LACP is an
Ethernet protocol that allows the bundling of several ports. It provides a method to
control the bundling of several physical ports together to form a single logical channel.
LACP allows a network device to negotiate an automatic bundling of links by sending
LACP packets to the peer (directly connected device that also implements LACP). The
members in the same group must have the same operation key in LACP mode, but in
static mode, active ports have the same operation key
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Operation key: enter a key between 1-65535. This key is link aggregation identifier, the
two link aggregation can’t be the same key, or the function is fail. The default operation
key of aggregation1 is 1, the default operation key of aggregation2 is 2
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