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How do I trunk 8 ports to one?
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You dont need 8 ports to get 800Mbps. A Etherchannel (which is what you are asking for) config uses full duplex so it is 200Mbps per port. So you need 4 ports at full duplex. Etherchannel is a type of trunking and automaticly configures the spanning tree so both ends need to speak Etherchannel.
If you want to do this without Etherchannel..ie.. just plug them in, dont. Spanning tree will block the extra ports in order to prevent data loops. You might be able to get them to come up but the stabilty of the switch will be in question as you are breaking a few networking rules to make it work.
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If you want to do this without Etherchannel..ie.. just plug them in, dont. Spanning tree will block the extra ports in order to prevent data loops. You might be able to get them to come up but the stabilty of the switch will be in question as you are breaking a few networking rules to make it work.
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