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4 making trunk connections – KTI Networks 10/100 FAST ETHERNET MANAGED KS-801 User Manual

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3.4 Making Trunk Connections

Two switch units can be cascaded together through any regular switched

data port on each unit when a port expansion is required. However, the

transfer bandwidth between the two cascaded ports is limited to 200Mbps

full duplex. To increase the bandwidth for the connection between two

switch units, a trunking function is implemented on the switch unit for

this purpose. Normal data ports can be configured optionally as trunking

ports through the network management operation. Two trunking ports

composes one trunk. Two switch units can be cascaded through one

trunk. The aggregated bandwidth of one trunk can be up to 400Mbps, if

2 trunking ports are used for one trunk.

The switch supports the following trunk configurations:

Configuration

Trunk

Trunking ports

1

None

None

2

1

Trunk [Port 1, Port 2]

3

1

Trunk [Port 7, Port 8]

4

2

Trunk1 [Port 1, Port 2]
Trunk2 [Port 7, Port 8]

Refer to the software operation manuals in the supplied CD-ROM for

more information about how to configure a data port as a trunking port.