Figure 14 Single Port Smlt Topology - Nortel 8300 User Manual

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Figure 14
Single Port SMLT topology
SMLT triangle topology
The most often used configuration, the triangle configuration, connects
multiple access switches to a pair of Ethernet Routing Switch 8300 devices.
In many cases, dual-NIC servers capable of link aggregation are connected
directly to the Ethernet Routing Switch 8300 devices in a similar fashion.
The following figure,
Extranet Switches (ES) as the SMLT Clients. In real-world applications, any
Layer 2 device capable of link aggregation can become the SMLT client.
Configuration — VLANs, Spanning Tree, and Static Link Aggregation using Device Manager
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Figure 15 "SMLT triangle topology" (page
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