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MultiLink Trunking (MLT) features

For the BayStack switches, MultiLink Trunking has the following general features and requirements:

• A unit can have up to 6 MultiLink Trunks (MLTs).
• Up to four ports can belong to a MultiLink Trunk.
• Ports in a MultiLink Trunk can be on different units in the stack.
• MultiLink Trunking is supported on 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-FX, and Gigabit Ethernet ports.
• MultiLink Trunking is compatible with the Spanning Tree Protocol.
• IEEE 802.1Q tagging is supported on a MultiLink Trunk.
• For bridge traffic, the algorithm that distributes traffic across a MultiLink Trunk is based on the source and destination MAC addresses.

• Setting up MLTs
• MultiLink Trunk statistics
• MultiLink Trunk Ethernet errors statistics