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Chapter 37 Configuring EtherChannels and Link-State Tracking
Configuring EtherChannels
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If EtherChannels are configured on switch interfaces, remove the EtherChannel configuration from
the interfaces before globally enabling IEEE 802.1x on a switch by using the
dot1x
system-auth-control
global configuration command.
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For Layer 2 EtherChannels:
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Assign all ports in the EtherChannel to the same VLAN, or configure them as trunks. Ports with
different native VLANs cannot form an EtherChannel.
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If you configure an EtherChannel from trunk ports, verify that the trunking mode (ISL or
IEEE 802.1Q) is the same on all the trunks. Inconsistent trunk modes on EtherChannel ports can
have unexpected results.
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An EtherChannel supports the same allowed range of VLANs on all the ports in a trunking
Layer 2 EtherChannel. If the allowed range of VLANs is not the same, the ports do not form an
EtherChannel even when PAgP is set to the
auto
or
desirable
mode.
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Ports with different spanning-tree path costs can form an EtherChannel if they are otherwise
compatibly configured. Setting different spanning-tree path costs does not, by itself, make ports
incompatible for the formation of an EtherChannel.
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For Layer 3 EtherChannels, assign the Layer 3 address to the port-channel logical interface, not to
the physical ports in the channel.
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For cross-stack EtherChannel configurations, ensure that all ports targeted for the EtherChannel are
either configured for LACP or are manually configured to be in the channel group using the
channel-group
channel-group-number
mode on
interface configuration command. The PAgP
protocol is not supported on cross- stack EtherChannels.
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If cross-stack EtherChannel is configured and the switch stack partitions, loops and forwarding
misbehaviors can occur.
Configuring Layer 2 EtherChannels
You configure Layer 2 EtherChannels by assigning ports to a channel group with the
channel-group
interface configuration command. This command automatically creates the port-channel logical
interface.
If you enabled PAgP on a port in the
auto
or
desirable
mode, you must reconfigure it for either the
on
mode or the LACP mode before adding this port to a cross-stack EtherChannel. PAgP does not support
cross-stack EtherChannels.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to assign a Layer 2 Ethernet port to a Layer 2
EtherChannel. This procedure is required.
Command
Purpose
Step 1
configure terminal
Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
interface
interface-id
Specify a physical port, and enter interface configuration mode.
Valid interfaces include physical ports.
For a PAgP EtherChannel, you can configure up to eight ports of
the same type and speed for the same group.
For a LACP EtherChannel, you can configure up to 16 Ethernet
ports of the same type. Up to eight ports can be active, and up to
eight ports can be in standby mode.
