How The Switch Lists Trunk Data; Outbound Traffic Distribution Across Trunked Links - HP Switch 2800 Series Management And Configuration Manual

Port Trunking
Port Status and Configuration
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Depending on the capabilities of the device on the other end of the trunk,
negotiate the forwarding mechanism on the trunk to the non-protocol
option.
When auto-negotiated to the SA/DA forwarding mechanism, provide
higher performance on the trunk for broadcast, multicast, and flooded
traffic through distribution in the same manner as non-protocol trunking.
Support FEC automatic trunk configuration mode on other devices. That
is, when connecting FEC trunks to FEC-capable servers, switches, or
routers having FEC automatic trunk configuration mode enabled, the
FEC trunks allow these other devices to automatically form trunk groups.

How the Switch Lists Trunk Data

Static Trunk Group: Appears in the menu interface and the output from the
CLI show trunk and show interfaces commands.
Dynamic LACP Trunk Group: Appears in the output from the CLI show lacp
command.
Interface Option
Menu Interface
CLI:
show trunk
show interfaces
show lacp
show spanning-tree
show igmp
show config

Outbound Traffic Distribution Across Trunked Links

All three trunk group options (LACP, Trunk, and FEC) use source-destination
address pairs (SA/DA) for distributing outbound traffic over trunked links.
SA/DA (source address/destination address) causes the switch to distribute
outbound traffic to the links within the trunk group on the basis of source/
destination address pairs. That is, the switch sends traffic from the same
Dynamic LACP Static LACP
Trunk Group Trunk Group
No Yes
No Yes
No Yes
Yes Yes
No Yes
No Yes
No Yes
Static Non-Protocol
or FEC Trunk Group
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes