Hunt Groups

Ports within a hunt group by default are redundant to one another since hunt groups perform load balancing among the ports. The hunt group load-shares the traffic between two switches allowing the bandwidth to be multiplied. The use of hunt groups also increases reliability since the links behave as hot standby links to one another. If the traffic is shared over multiple links, and one of the links is "lost", the traffic will be automatically redistributed over the other links and the communications will continue without interruption. See "Using Hunt Groups to Aggregate Bandwidth" in Chapter 6:�Using VLANs, Hunt Groups, and VTP Snooping for more details.