Link Aggregation - D-Link DGS-3700-12 User Manual

Link Aggregation

The Link Aggregation section includes Port Trunking Settings and LACP Port Settings.
Port Trunking Settings
Port trunk groups are used to combine a number of ports together to make a single high-bandwidth data pipeline.
DGS-3700 Series supports up to six port trunk groups with two to eight ports in each group. A potential bit rate of 8000
Mbps can be achieved.
The Switch treats all ports in a trunk group as a single port. Data transmitted to a specific host (destination address)
will always be transmitted over the same port in a trunk group. This allows packets in a data stream to arrive in the
same order they were sent.
NOTE: If any ports within the trunk group become disconnected, packets intended for the
disconnected ports will be load shared among the other unlinked ports of the link aggregation
group.
Link aggregation allows several ports to be grouped together and to act as a single link. This gives a bandwidth that is
a multiple of a single link's bandwidth.
DGS-3700-12/DGS-3700-12G Series Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet User Manual
Figure 4- 34 Example of Port Trunk Group
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