Lag Membership - NETGEAR FS728TPv2 Software Administration Manual

To configure LAG settings:
Select the check box next to the LAG to configure. You can select multiple LAGs to
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apply the same setting to the selected interfaces. Select the check box in the heading
row to apply the same settings to all interfaces.
Configure or view the following settings:
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LAG Name. Specify the name you want assigned to the LAG. You may enter any
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string of up to 15 alphanumeric characters. A valid name has to be specified in order
to create the LAG
Description. Specify the Description string to be attached to a LAG. It can be up to 64
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characters in length.
LAG ID. Displays the number assigned to the LAG. This field is read-only.
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Link Trap. Specify whether you want to have a trap sent when link status changes.
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The factory default is Disable, which will cause the trap to be sent.
Admin Mode. Select Enable or Disable from the menu. When the LAG (port channel)
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is disabled, no traffic will flow and LAGPDUs will be dropped, but the links that form
the LAG (port channel) will not be released. The factory default is Enable.
STP Mode. Select the Spanning Tree Protocol Administrative Mode associated with
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the LAG.
LAG Type. Specifies whether the LAG is configured as a Static or LACP port. When
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the LAG is static, it does not transmit or process received LAGPDUs, for example the
member ports do not transmit LAGPDUs and all the LAGPDUs it may receive are
dropped. The default is Static.
Active Ports. A listing of the ports that are actively participating members of this Port
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Channel. A maximum of 8 ports can be assigned to a port channel.
LAG State. Indicates whether the link is Up or Down.
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Click Cancel to cancel the configuration on the screen and reset the data on the screen to
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the latest value of the switch.
If you make any changes to this page, click Apply to send the updated configuration to the
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switch. Configuration changes take effect immediately.

LAG Membership

Use the LAG Membership page to select two or more full-duplex Ethernet links to be
aggregated together to form a link aggregation group (LAG), which is also known as a
port-channel. The switch can treat the port-channel as if it were a single link.
To access the LAG Membership page, click Switching LAG  Basic  LAG Membership.
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