Add Physical Ports To The Smarttrunk; Specify Traffic Distribution Policy (Optional) - Cabletron Systems IA1100 User's Reference Manual

Add Physical Ports to the SmartTRUNK

You can add any number of ports to a SmartTRUNK. The limit is the number of ports on
the IA. Any port on any module can be part of a SmartTRUNK. If one module fails, the
remaining ports on other modules remain operational.
Ports added to a SmartTRUNK must:
• Be set to full-duplex.
• Be in the same VLAN.
• Have the same properties (Layer-2 aging, STP state, and so on).
To add ports to a SmartTRUNK, enter the following command in Configure mode:
Create a SmartTRUNK that will be
connected to a device that supports
the DEC Hunt Group control
protocol.

Specify Traffic Distribution Policy (Optional)

The default policy for distributing traffic across the ports in a SmartTRUNK is round-robin,
where the IA selects the port on a rotating basis. The other policy that can be chosen is link-
utilization, where packets are sent to the least-used port in a SmartTRUNK. You can choose
to specify the link-utilization policy for a particular SmartTRUNK, a list of
SmartTRUNKs, or for all SmartTRUNKs on the IA.
Specify traffic distribution policy.
Internet Appliance User Reference Manual
Chapter 3: SmartTRUNK Configuration Guide
smarttrunk add ports
<smarttrunk>
smarttrunk set load-policy on
list>
|all-smarttrunks round-robin|link-
utilization
<port list>
to
<smarttrunk
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