Defining Lag Membership; Multicast Forwarding Support - Dell PowerConnect 2808 User Manual

Defining LAG Membership

The LAG Membership page contains fields for assigning ports to LAGs. LAGs can include up to eight
ports. When a port is added to a LAG, the port acquires the LAG's properties. If the port cannot be
configured with the LAG properties, a trap is generated and the port operates with its default settings.
The LAG Membership page contains fields for assigning ports to LAGs. To open the LAG Membership
page, click Switch Link Aggregation LAG Membership in the tree view.
Figure 7-25. LAG Membership
• LAG — Adds a port to a LAG, and indicates the specific LAG to which the port belongs.
Configuring a Port to a LAG
1 Open the LAG Membership page.
2 In the LAG row (the second row), toggle the button to a specific number to aggregate to or remove the
port from that LAG number.
3 Click Apply Changes.
The port is added to the LAG, and the device is updated.

Multicast Forwarding Support

Multicast forwarding allows a single packet to be forwarded to multiple destinations. L2 Multicast service
is based on L2 switch receiving a single packet addressed to a specific Multicast address. Multicast
forwarding creates copies of the packet, and transmits the packets to the relevant ports.
To open the Multicast Support page, click Switch Multicast Support in the tree view.
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