4-2-5. Aggregation
The Aggregation (Port Trunking) Configuration is used to configure the
settings of Link Aggregation. You can bundle ports by same speed, MAC, and full
duplex to be a single logical port, thus the logical port can aggregate the bandwidth
of these ports. This means you can apply your current Ethernet equipments to build
the bandwidth aggregation.
aggregated into a logical port, then this logical port's bandwidth would be as three
times high as a single Fast Ethernet port's.
Function name:
Aggregation Configuration
Function description:
Display the current setup of Aggregation Trunking. With this function, user is
allowed to add a new trunking group or modify the members of an existed
trunking group.
Parameter description:
Normal:
Set up the ports that do not join any aggregation trunking group.
Group 1~8:
Group the ports you choose together. Up to 12 ports can be selected for
each group.
For example, if three Fast Ethernet ports are
Fig. 4-10 Aggregation/Trunking Configuration
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