Viewing Port Assignments; Working With Hunt Groups (Link Aggregation); Hunt Group Considerations - Avaya Cajun P550 Manager 5.1 User Manual

Chapter 2

Viewing Port Assignments

Working with Hunt Groups (Link Aggregation)

Hunt Group Considerations

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5. When you are prompted to confirm the changes, click OK to
save changes or CANCEL to restore the current VLAN
assignment.
To view ports assigned to a specific VLAN, from the VLAN pull-down
menu located above the System Information and Virtual LANS area
(Figure 2-3), select the VLAN for which you want to view port
assignments. All enabled ports connected to the selected VLAN
display as yellow (connected to a selected VLAN but not plugged in)
or green (connected and enabled with a link) in the switch
representation.
Link Aggregation (Hunt Groups) allow you to aggregate multiple
switch ports into a single group, effectively combining the
bandwidth into a single connection.
* Note: In this document, link aggregation is referred to as hunt
groups.
For example, if you connect three gigabit ports each on a pair of
switches into a hunt group, the aggregated connection will have six
gigabits of available bandwidth (full- duplex).
Hunt groups also provide fault tolerance. If a port in a hunt group
fails, the remaining ports continue to forward the traffic on the link.
Before creating a hunt group, consider the following points:
The switches do not have a link discovery protocol. When
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creating a hunt group, you have to verify that the ports in a
group on one switch are physically connected to the ports in
that group on the other switch.
If one end of a connection is in a hunt group, the other end
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of the connection should also be a hunt group. Otherwise,
the forwarding behavior of the hunt group is unpredictable.
You should disable the ports in a hunt group until both ends
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of the link are configured.
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