Port Grouping; Port Grouping Overview; Port Grouping Screen - ZyXEL Communications ZyWALL USG 300 User Manual

Chapter 10 Interfaces

10.3 Port Grouping

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

10.3.1 Port Grouping Overview

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.
See Section 6.1.3 on page 101

10.3.2 Port Grouping Screen

Define the relationship between physical ports, port groups, and Ethernet
interfaces in the Port Grouping screen. Port grouping does not apply to ports 7
and 8 (the dual-personality Ethernet port and SFP slot pairs). The are always
assigned to interfaces ge7 and ge8, respectively. To access this screen, click
Network > Interface > Port Grouping.
Figure 138 Network > Interface > Port Grouping
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for an example of port grouping.
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