
Port Trunking
Port Trunk Features and Operation
Port Trunk Features and Operation
The switches covered by this guide offer these options for port trunking:
■ LACP: IEEE 802.3ad—page 13-18
■ Trunk: Non-Protocol—page 13-24
The number of trunk groups supported on a given switch depends on the
switch model and the number of ports physically available on the switch. The
maximum theoretical bandwidths shown below are based on full-duplex
operation.
Trunk Port Count 5300 1-Gig Links 3400/6400 Gig & 10-Gig
1-Gig Links 10-Gig Links
2 Up to 4 Gbs Up to 4 Gbs Up to 40 Gbs
3 6 6 60
4 8 8 80
5 8** 10 N/A*
6 8** 12 N/A*
7 8** 14 N/A*
8 8** 16 N/A*
*Although the 6400 can theoretically support an 8-port trunk, anything over 4 ports would not be practical because
the trunk bandwidth capacity with 5 or more ports would exceed the bandwidth capacity of the remaining non-
trunk ports. In any case, 80 Gbs is the theoretical maximum bandwidth for the 6400 switches.
** The maximum theoretical bandwidth for trunking on the 5300xl switches is 8 Gbs.
(Using the Link Aggregation Control Protocol—LACP—option, you can
include standby trunked ports in addition to the maximum of eight actively
trunking ports.)
LACP Note LACP requires full-duplex (FDx) links of the same media type (10/100Base-T,
100FX, etc.) and the same speed, and enforces speed and duplex conformance
across a trunk group. For most installations, ProCurve recommends that you
leave the port Mode settings at Auto (the default). LACP also operates with
Auto-10, Auto-100, and Auto-1000 (if negotiation selects FDx), and 10FDx, 100FDx,
and 1000FDx settings. (The 10-gigabit ports available for some switch models
allow only the Auto setting.)
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