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All Ports are of the same speed.

All ports are Access ports and belong to the same VLAN or are all TRUNK ports, or are all

Hybrid ports.
If the ports are all TRUNK ports or Hybrid ports, then their “Allowed VLAN” and “Native VLAN”

property should also be the same.

If Port Channel is configured manually or dynamically on switch, the system will automatically

set the port with the smallest number to be Master Port of the Port Channel. If the spanning

tree function is enabled in the switch, the spanning tree protocol will regard Port Channel as a

logical port and send BPDU frames via the master port.

Port aggregation is closely related with switch hardware. Switch allow physical port

aggregation of any two switches, maximum 128 groups and 8 ports in each port group are

supported.

Once ports are aggregated, they can be used as a normal port. Switch have a built-in

aggregation interface configuration mode, the user can perform related configuration in this

mode just like in the VLAN and physical interface configuration mode.

6.2 Brief Introduction to LACP

LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) is a kind of protocol based on IEEE802.3ad

standard to implement the link dynamic aggregation. LACP protocol uses LACPDU (Link

Aggregation Control Protocol Data Unit) to exchange the information with the other end.

After LACP protocol of the port is enabled, this port will send LACPDU to the other end to

notify the system priority, the MAC address of the system, the priority of the port, the port ID

and the operation Key. After the other end receives the information, the information is

compared with the saving information of other ports to select the port which can be aggregated,

accordingly, both sides can reach an agreement about the ports join or exit the dynamic

aggregation group. The operation Key is created by LACP protocol according to the

combination of configuration (speed, duplex, basic configuration, management Key) of the

ports to be aggregated.

After the dynamic aggregation port enables LACP protocol, the management Key is 0 by

default. After the static aggregation port enables LACP, the management Key of the port is the

same with the ID of the aggregation group.

For the dynamic aggregation group, the members of the same group have the same operation

Key, for the static aggregation group, the ports of Active have the same operation Key.

The port aggregation is that multi-ports are aggregated to form an aggregation group, so as to

implement the out/in load balance in each member port of the aggregation group and provides

the better reliability.

6.2.1 Static LACP Aggregation

Static LACP aggregation is enforced by users configuration, and do not enable LACP protocol.