Multilink Trunk Utilization Screen - Nortel BayStack 410 24T Using Manual

Table 3-22. MultiLink Trunk Configuration Screen Fields
Field Description
The STP Learning column contains a single field for each row that, when enabled, allows
STP Learning
the specified trunk to participate in the spanning tree. This setting overrides those of the
individual trunk members.
Fast is the same as Normal, except that the state transition timer is shortened to two
seconds.
Default Value
Range
Trunk Mode The Trunk Mode column contains a single read-only field for each row that indicates the
default operating mode for the switch.
Basic: Basic mode is the default mode for the switch. When in this mode, source MAC
addresses are dynamically assigned to specific trunk members for flooding and
forwarding. This allows the switch to stabilize and distribute the data streams of source
addresses across the trunk members.
The Trunk Status column contains a single field for each row that allows users to enable
Trunk Status
or disable any of the trunks.
Default Value
Range
The Trunk Name column contains a single optional field in each row that can be used to
Trunk Name
assign names to the corresponding configured trunks. The names chosen for this
example can provide meaningful information to the user (for example, S1:T1 to FS2
indicates Trunk 1 in switch S1 connects to File Server 2).

MultiLink Trunk Utilization Screen

The MultiLink Trunk Utilization screen
to monitor the percentage of bandwidth used by configured trunk members. You
can choose the type of traffic to monitor.
Figure 3-26
ports configured in
the configured trunks (up to six), the screen prompts users to Press [Ctrl]-N to
view trunks five and six.
Choose MultiLink Trunk Utilization (or press u) from the MultiLink Trunk
Configuration Menu screen to open the MultiLink Trunk Utilization screen.
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Normal
Normal, Fast, Disabled
Disabled
Enabled, Disabled
shows an example of bandwidth utilization rates for the trunk member
Figure 3-25. Because two screens are required to show all of
Using the Console Interface
(continued)
(Figure 3-26 and Figure 3-27) allows you
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