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10.3 Port Grouping

This section introduces port groups and then explains the screen for port groups.

Use port grouping to create port groups and to assign physical ports and port groups to

Ethernet interfaces.

Each physical port is assigned to one Ethernet interface. In port grouping, the Ethernet

interfaces are called representative interfaces. If you assign more than one physical port to a

representative interface, you create a port group. Port groups have the following

characteristics:

• There is a layer-2 Ethernet switch between physical ports in the port group. This provides

wire-speed throughput but no security.

• It can increase the bandwidth between the port group and other interfaces.

In the example below, you might combine physical ports 3 and 4 into port group ge3.

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This table provides packet statistics for each interface.

Click this button to update the information in the screen.

This field displays the name of each interface. Click + or - in the heading cell to

display or hide all virtual interfaces. Click a name's + or - to display or hide the

virtual interfaces on top of that interface.

This field displays the current status of the interface.

Down - The interface is not connected.

Speed / Duplex - The interface is connected. This field displays the port speed and

duplex setting (Full or Half).

This field displays the number of packets transmitted from the ZyWALL on the

interface since it was last connected.

This field displays the number of packets received by the ZyWALL on the interface

since it was last connected.

This field displays the number of collisions on the interface since it was last

This field displays the transmission speed, in bytes per second, on the interface in

the one-second interval before the screen updated.

This field displays the reception speed, in bytes per second, on the interface in the

one-second interval before the screen updated.

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