trunk

[sarahr202]

hi every body!

Can any body tell me two fast ethernet ports, set to half duplex, be used for trunk?

thanks alot !

[keeleym]

Hi Sarah

AFAIK the ports have to be running in full duplex mode for a trunk to form. This is why trunks cannnot be configured on 1900 switches which only have 10mbps/half duplex ports.

Best Regards,

Michael

[Amit Singh · Accepted solution]

Yes of course. Trunk encapsulation has nothing to do with the port duplex-settings.

But why do u want to use that. This would significantly degrade the network performance while running the trunk links which will be carrying a huge traffic across the half-duplex port.

HTH,

-amit singh

[sarahr202]

thanks amit!