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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Software Configuration Guide—Release 8.7
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Chapter 6 Configuring EtherChannel
Configuring an EtherChannel Using LACP
Configuring an EtherChannel Using LACP
These sections describe how to configure EtherChannel using LACP:
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Specifying the EtherChannel Protocol, page 6-15
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Specifying the System Priority, page 6-16
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Specifying the Port Priority, page 6-16
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Specifying an Administrative Key Value, page 6-16
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Changing the Channel Mode, page 6-18
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Specifying the Channel Path Cost, page 6-18
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Specifying the Channel VLAN Cost, page 6-18
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Configuring Channel Load Balancing, page 6-18
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Clearing the LACP Statistics, page 6-18
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Displaying EtherChannel Traffic Utilization, page 6-19
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Displaying the Outgoing Ports for a Specified Address or Layer 4 Port Number, page 6-19
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Disabling an EtherChannel, page 6-19
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Displaying the Spanning-Tree Information for EtherChannels, page 6-20
Note
Before you configure the EtherChannel, see the
“EtherChannel Configuration Guidelines” section on
page 6-3
.
Specifying the EtherChannel Protocol
Note
The default protocol is PAgP.
Note
You can specify only one protocol, PAgP or LACP, per module.
To specify the EtherChannel protocol, perform this task in privileged mode:
This example shows how to specify the LACP protocol for modules 2 and 3:
Console> (enable)
set channelprotocol lacp 2,3
Mod 2 is set to LACP protocol.
Mod 3 is set to LACP protocol.
Console> (enable)
Use the
show channelprotocol
command to display the protocols for all modules.
Task
Command
Specify the EtherChannel protocol.
set channelprotocol
[
pagp
|
lacp
]
mod