Help needed in choosing a switch

[Kashif Tasneem]

Hi. I want to purchase a switch which supports port trunking. I have narrowed down to the following two:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1062947-REG/tp_link_tl_sg108e_8_port_gigabit_easy.html
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...08e_100nas_8_port_gigabit_ethernet_smart.html

Can anybody suggest which one should I purchase? Which will support port trunking?

 

[L&LD]

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I would guess neither will do it well, if at all.

You need to triple+ your budget for features such as this to work as declared.

 

[MichaelCG]

Link Agg and Trunking are completely different features. Port trunking generally would be 802.1q....this is generally how you run a single connection with multiple VLANs on it. Link Agg is aggregation of multiple physical links for redundancy and speed increases.

To the OP....please confirm which feature set you are after. General port trunking is usually available on almost any managed switch.

 

[Kashif Tasneem]

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https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/70ucsb/_/dn63mo6

I would guess neither will do it well, if at all.

You need to triple+ your budget for features such as this to work as declared.

Okay. Thanks.

 

[Kashif Tasneem]

Link Agg and Trunking are completely different features. Port trunking generally would be 802.1q....this is generally how you run a single connection with multiple VLANs on it. Link Agg is aggregation of multiple physical links for redundancy and speed increases.

To the OP....please confirm which feature set you are after. General port trunking is usually available on almost any managed switch.

Thanks. I was looking for Link Aggregation.