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Chapter 26 Configuring EtherChannels and Link-State Tracking
Understanding EtherChannels
Port-Channel Interfaces
When you create an EtherChannel, a port-channel logical interface is involved. With Layer 2 ports, use
the
channel-group
interface configuration command to dynamically create the port-channel logical
interface.
You also can use the
interface port-channel
port-channel-number
global configuration command to
manually create the port-channel logical interface, but then you must use the
channel-group
channel-group-number
command to bind the logical interface to a physical port. The
channel-group-number
can be the same as the
port
-
channel-number,
or you can use a new number. If
you use a new number, the
channel-group
command dynamically creates a new port channel.
For Layer 2 ports, the
channel-group
command binds the physical port and the logical interface together
as shown in
Each EtherChannel has a port-channel logical interface numbered from 1 to 48. This port-channel
interface number corresponds to the one specified with the
channel-group
interface configuration
command.
Figure 26-3
Relationship of Physical Ports, Logical Port Channels, and Channel Groups
After you configure an EtherChannel, configuration changes applied to the port-channel interface apply
to all the physical ports assigned to the port-channel interface. Configuration changes applied to the
physical port affect only the port where you apply the configuration. To change the parameters of all
ports in an EtherChannel, apply configuration commands to the port-channel interface, for example,
spanning-tree commands or commands to configure a Layer 2 EtherChannel as a trunk.
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Channel-group
binding
Physical ports
Logical
port-channel
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