Alcatel-Lucent 6850-48 Network Guide

OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Network Configuration Guide

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Alcatel-Lucent’s dynamic link aggregation software allows you to combine several physical links into one 
large virtual link known as a link aggregation group. Using link aggregation provides the following bene-
fits:

• Scalability. It is possible to configure up to 32 link aggregation groups that consist of 2, 4, or 8 10-

Mbps, 100-Mbps, 1-Gbps, or 10-Gbps Ethernet links.

• Reliability. If one of the physical links in a link aggregate group goes down (unless it is the last one) 

the link aggregate group can still operate.

• Ease of Migration. Link aggregation can ease the transition from 100-Mbps Ethernet backbones to 

Gigabit Ethernet backbones.

This chapter describes the basic components of dynamic link aggregation and how to configure them 
through the Command Line Interface (CLI). CLI commands are used in the configuration examples; for 
more details about the syntax of commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.

Configuration procedures described in this chapter include:

• Configuring dynamic link aggregation groups on 

• Configuring ports so they can be aggregated in dynamic link aggregation groups on 

.

• Modifying dynamic link aggregation parameters on 

Note. You can also configure and monitor dynamic link aggregation with WebView, Alcatel-Lucent’s 
embedded Web-based device management application. WebView is an interactive and easy-to-use GUI 
that can be launched from OmniVista or a Web browser. Please refer to WebView’s online documentation 
for more information on configuring and monitoring dynamic link aggregation with WebView.