User Manual

45
6.14.1 Aggregator setting
1. System Priority: A value that is used to identify the active LACP. The switch with
the lowest value has the highest priority and is selected as the active LACP.
2. Group ID: There are four trunk groups to be selected. Choose the "Group ID" and
select button.
3. LACP: When enabled, the trunk group is using LACP. A port that joins an LACP
trunk group has to make an agreement with its member ports first. When disabled,
the trunk group is a static trunk group. The advantage of having the LACP disabled
is that a port joins the trunk group without any handshaking with its member ports.
But member ports won’t know that they should be aggregated together to form a
logic trunk group.
4. Work ports: This column field allows the user to type in the total number of active
port up to four. With LACP trunk group, you create a trunk group by connecting two
or more switches (e.g. you assign four ports to be the members of the trunk group
whose work ports column field is set as two). The exceed ports are standby (the
Aggregator Information tab will show standby status on the exceed ports) and can
be aggregated if work ports fail. If it is a static trunk group, the number of work ports
must equal the total number of group member ports.
5. Select the ports to join the trunk group. The system allows four ports maximum to be
aggregated in a trunk group. Select button to add the port that is
focused to the left field. To remove unwanted ports, select the port and select
button.
6. When LACP enabled, you can configure LACP Active/Passive status for each port
on State Activity page.
7. Select button.