Very simple link aggregation on 5406zl

[synaesthesia]

Very easily confused with the plethora of crossed terms in networks regarding link aggregation/trunking etc.

The task is a simple one : I need a simple, static agg. link from a 5406 to another switch. I've taught myself to ignore terms like "trunking" as in most languages that isn't what we need. Except on the other procurves we have (1800-24g) it IS what we need.

That's easy enough. But on he 5406, the options are so confusing it's impossible to get them to work. Estimated the right settings in the web interface and it appeared to work - switches and devices pinged, however they wouldn't actually send any information to other devices until one of the two cables were removed.

One part of the configuration seems to talk about trunking as the connection of one switch to another directly, another seems to talk about link aggregation, as if HP couldn't decide which terminology to use. I understand that effectively it is all trunking but that terminology is then completely wrong when I want to set up an aggregated link (2 ports) from one of my servers to the switch!

Can anyone put this far more simply?

[Fredrik Lönnman]

Depending on vendor a trunk could mean one of two things;

a) A port carrying one or more tagged VLANs (Cisco, H3C/3Com(HP), Alcatel)

b) Two or more aggregated ports (HP Procurve)

A static link aggregation on a 5406zl is configured like this:

5406zl(config)# trunk a1-a2 trk1 trunk