If there is no port aggregation on the vswitch. Your two computers are connected with two network cables. It turns into a ring, which affects both the switch and the connected computer. Therefore, the port aggregation function is crucial for Internet cafe switches.
This section briefly describes information about the port aggregation function of a managed switch.
I. Main Functions of convergence of Internet cafe network-managed switch ports:
It is to bind multiple physical ports (generally 2-8) to a logical channel to make it work like a channel. Bundling multiple physical links not only improves the bandwidth of the entire Internet cafe network, but also data can be transmitted through multiple bound physical links at the same time, which has the function of link redundancy, when one or more links are disconnected due to network faults or other causes, the remaining links can still work.
2. Main Applications for convergence of Internet cafe network-managed switch ports:
1. The port aggregation function is used to connect to the server to provide the server with an exclusive high bandwidth.
2. The port aggregation function is used for cascade between vswitches. It sacrifices the number of ports to provide high bandwidth for data exchange between vswitches, improving network speed and breaking through network bottlenecks, this greatly improves network performance.
3. Port aggregation can provide load balancing capabilities and system fault tolerance. As Trunk balances the traffic of each switch port and server interface in real time, once a port fails, it will automatically remove the faulty port from the Trunk group, and then re-allocate the traffic of each aggregation port, so as to realize system fault tolerance.
Iii. Convergence configuration of Internet cafe network-managed switch ports:
1. log on to WebUI-> advanced configuration-> port aggregation page:
2. Select the aggregation port and save