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13.2.1 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.

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). They are always

assigned to interfaces ge7 and ge8, respectively. To access this screen, click

Configuration > Network > Interface > Port Grouping.

Figure 250 Configuration > Network > Interface > Port Grouping

Each section in this screen is described below.

Table 59 Configuration > Network > Interface > Port Grouping Role

Representative

Interface (ge1,

ge2, ge3, ...)

Physical Port (1,

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These are Ethernet interfaces. To add a physical port to a

representative interface, drag the physical port onto the

corresponding representative interface.

These are the physical ports as they appear on the front panel of the

ZyWALL. To add a physical port to a representative interface, drag the

physical port onto the corresponding representative interface.

Chapter 13 Interfaces