GS108T Smart Switch Software Administration Manual
Configuring the Switch 4-17
v1.0, May 2007
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• If a user sets VLAN 0, all created VLANs are allowed.
• When the system works on the port-based VLAN mode, the VLAN value is always set to 0.
Link Aggregation
Two types of link aggregation are supported:
• Static Trunking: the ports are grouped manually.
• Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP): part of IEEE specification (802.3ad) that
allows several physical ports to be bundled together to form a single logical channel. Link
aggregation allows one or more links to be aggregated together to form a Link Aggregation
Group, such that a MAC Client can treat the Link Aggregation Group as if it were a single
link. Link aggregation can be used on 10-Mbps, 100-Mbps, or 1000-Mbps Ethernet full duplex
ports.
Example: A network administrator could combine a group of five 100-Mbps ports into a logical
link that will function as a single 500-Mbps port (the actual throughput however will be less than
the sum total of the links).
Figure 4-38
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