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4.3.4 Port
Trunking
Port Trunking configuration allows you to group multiple Ethernet ports in parallel to
increase link bandwidth. The aggregated ports can be viewed as one physical port so that
the bandwidth is higher than merely one single Ethernet port. The member ports of the
same trunk group can balance the loading and backup for each other. Port Trunking
feature is usually used when you need higher bandwidth for backbone network. This is an
inexpensive way for you to transfer more data.
There are some different descriptions for the port trunking. Different manufacturers may
use different descriptions for their products, like Link Aggregation Group (LAG), Link
Aggregation Control Protocol, Ethernet Trunk, EtherChannel…etc. Most of the
implementations now conform to IEEE standard, 802.3ad.
The aggregated ports can interconnect to the other switch which also supports Port
Trunking. Korenix Supports 2 types of port trunking. One is Static Trunk, the other is
802.3ad. When the other end uses 802.3ad LACP, you
should
assign 802.3ad LACP to
the trunk. When the other end uses non-802.3ad, you can then use Static Trunk.
There are 2 configuration pages, Aggregation Setting and Aggregation Status.
Aggregation Setting
