1-4 
Task  Remarks 
Create a smart link group 
Add member ports to the smart link group 
Configuring a Smart Link 
Device
 
Enable the function of sending flush messages 
in the specified control VLAN 
Required 
Configuring Associated 
Devices
 
Enable the function of processing flush 
messages received from the specified control 
VLAN 
Required 
 
Configuring a Smart Link Device 
A Smart Link device refers to a device on which Smart Link is enabled and a smart link group is 
configured, and that sends flush messages from the specified control VLAN. A member port of a smart 
link group can be either an Ethernet port or a manually-configured or static LACP aggregation group. 
You can configure a port or a link aggregation group as a member of a smart link group. 
Follow these steps to configure Smart Link (with ports as the members of the smart link group): 
To do…  Use the command…  Remarks 
Enter system view 
system-view 
— 
Create a smart link group and 
enter smart link group view 
smart-link group group-id 
Required 
Enable the function of sending 
flush messages in the 
specified control VLAN 
flush enable control-vlan vlan-id 
Required 
By default, no 
control VLAN for 
sending flush 
messages is 
specified. 
smart link 
group view 
port interface-type interface-number { master | 
slave } 
quit 
interface interface-type interface-number 
Configure a 
port as a 
smart link 
group 
member 
Ethernet port 
view 
port smart-link group group-id { master | 
slave } 
Required 
Use either 
approach 
 
Follow these steps to configure Smart Link (with link aggregation groups are the members of the smart 
link group): 
To do…  Use the command…  Remarks 
Enter system view
 
system-view 
— 
Create a smart link group and 
enter smart link group view
 
smart-link group 
group-id
 
Required
 
Configure a link aggregation 
group as a member of the 
smart link group
 
link-aggregation group 
group-id
 
{
 master
 |
 slave 
}
 
Optional