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Chapter 40 Configuring EtherChannels
Information About Configuring EtherChannels
Default EtherChannel SettingsEtherChannel Configuration Guidelines
If improperly configured, some EtherChannel ports are autom atically disabled to avoid network loops
and other problems. Follow these guidelines to avoid configuration problems:
Do not try to configure more than 6 EtherChannels on the swit ch.
Configure a PAgP EtherChannel with up to eight Ethernet ports of the same type.
Configure a LACP EtherChannel with up to16 Ethernet ports of the same type. Up to eight p orts can
be active, and up to eight ports can be in standby mode.
Configure all ports in an EtherChannel to operate at the same speed s and duplex modes.
Enable all ports in an EtherChannel. A port in an EtherChannel that is disabled by using the
shutdown interface configuration command is treated as a link failure, and its traffic is transferred
to one of the remaining ports in the EtherChannel.
When a group is first created, all ports follow the parameters set for the first port to be added to the
group. If you change the configuration of one of these parameters, you must also make the changes
to all ports in the group:
Allowed-VLAN list
Spanning-tree path cost for each VLAN
Spanning-tree port priority for each VLAN
Spanning-tree Port Fast setting
Do not configure a port to be a member of more than one EtherChannel group.
Do not configure an EtherChannel in both the PAgP and LACP modes. EtherChannel groups running
PAgP and LACP can coexist on the same switch. Individual EtherChannel groups can run either
PAgP or LACP, but they cannot interoperate.
Tab l e 40-3 Default EtherChannel Settings
Feature Default Setting
Channel groups None assigned.
Port-channel logical interface None defined.
PAgP mode No default.
PAgP learn method Aggregate-port learning on all ports.
PAgP priority 128 on all ports.
LACP mode No default.
LACP learn method Aggregate-port learning on all ports.
LACP port priority 32768 on all ports.
LACP system priority 32768.
LACP system ID LACP system priority and the switch MAC address.
Load balancing Load distribution on the switch is based on the
source-MAC address of the incoming packet.