System information

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Port Trunking

Overview

This chapter describes creating and modifying port trunk groups. This

includes non-protocol trunks and LACP (802.3ad) trunks.

Port Status and Configuration

Port trunking allows you to assign physical links to one logical link (trunk)

that functions as a single, higher-speed link providing dramatically increased

bandwidth. This capability applies to connections between backbone devices

as well as to connections in other network areas where traffic bottlenecks

exist.

A trunk group is a set of ports configured as members of the same port trunk.

Note that the ports in a trunk group do not have to be consecutive. For

example:

Feature Default Menu CLI Web

viewing port trunks n/a page 12-8 page 12-10 page 12-15

configuring a static trunk

group

none page 12-8 page 12-13 —

configuring a dynamic LACP

trunk group

LACP passive — page 12-14 —

Port Trunking Support ProCurve Switch

2610-24

ProCurve Switch

2610-48

Ports per trunk (maximum) 8 8

Trunks per switch (maximum) 12 24