How to Setup Link Aggregation on Switch (Static - ports are static members of a trunk group)

How to Setup Link Aggregation on Switch (Static - ports are static members of a trunk group)

NOTE: First configure, then connect!

1. Check before you start

2. Link Aggregation

3. Verify

1. Check before you start

Check the following:

• Check Port Status, here Example Port 7/8:

• Check that Loop guard is not active on these Ports (Advanced => Loop Guard)

• check that Port Security is disabled on needed Ports:

So now we can start to configure Link Aggregation.

2. Link Aggregation

So now we can start to configure Link Aggregation, please go to Adv.-App.=> Link Aggregation:

Select: Link Aggregation Setting:

Choose Trunk Group, here T4 because of T1. T3 is already in use. Normally if it is the first Trunk choose here T1.

Info: src-dst-mac to distribute traffic based on a combination of the packet’s source and destination MAC addresses.

Select Ports which should be used by (here) T4:

Go down and apply Settings:

Now Port 7/8 is bound together to a Link Aggregation.

Don’t forget to save the configuration:

3. Verify

You can double-check, go back to Status:

And you can see Trunk is assign to Port 7&8 and ready to use.