Rockwell Automation 1783-Mxxx Stratix 8000 and 8300 Ethernet Managed Switches User Manual - Manual (Page 101)

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Manage the Switch via the Device Manager Web Interface Chapter 4
Configure EtherChannels An EtherChannel, or port group, is a group of two or more switch ports bundled
into a single logical link to create a higher bandwidth link between two switches.
For example, four 10/100 switch ports can be assigned to an EtherChannel to
provide full-duplex bandwidth of up to 800 Mb/s. If one of the ports in the
EtherChannel becomes unavailable, traffic is carried over the remaining ports
within the EtherChannel.
All ports in an EtherChannel must have the same characteristics:
• All are applied with the Smartports IE Switch port role and belong to the
same VLAN.
• All are either 10/100 ports, or all are 10/100/1000 ports. You cannot
group a mix of 10/100 and 10/100/1000 ports in an EtherChannel.
• All are enabled. A disabled port in an EtherChannel is treated as a link
failure, and its traffic is transferred to one of the remaining ports in the
EtherChannel.
To create, modify, and delete EtherChannels, from the Configure menu, choose
EtherChannels.
IMPORTANT Do not enable Layer 3 addresses on the physical EtherChannel interfaces.