Hunt Group Features

Hunt group features include:

• Shared traffic load.
• Fault tolerance -- If a port in a group fails, the remaining ports in the group pick up the traffic load.
• Support for any number of same-speed same media type connections in a group -- The group is not restricted to a single module in a switch.
• Quicker recovery from link failure -- If a port in the group fails, the remaining ports carry the load. Recovery is not limited by Spanning Tree Protocol convergence time (convergence time is the time the network takes to resume steady-state forwarding after Spanning Tree Protocol reconfiguration).
• Supports up to 25 hunt groups per switch, if 48-port mode is disabled and up to 13 hunt groups if 48-port mode is enabled.