PORT TRUNKING COMMANDS

All ports in a trunk must be configured in an identical manner, including communication mode (i.e., speed, duplex mode and flow control), VLAN assignments, and CoS settings.

All the ports in a trunk have to be treated as a whole when moved from/to, added or deleted from a VLAN via the specified port-channel.

STP, VLAN, and IGMP settings can only be made for the entire trunk via the specified port-channel.

channel-group

Use this command to add a port to a trunk. Use the no form to remove a port from a trunk.

Syntax

channel-group channel-idno channel-group

channel-id- Trunk index (Range: 1-6)

Default Setting

A new trunk contains no ports.

Command Mode

Interface Configuration (Ethernet)

Command Usage

When configuring static trunks, the switches must comply with the Cisco EtherChannel standard.

Use no channel-groupto remove a port group from a trunk.

Use no interfaces port-channelto remove a trunk from the switch.

The maximum number of ports that can be combined as a static trunk is four 10/100 Mbps ports, and two 1000 Mbps ports.

All links in a trunk must operate at the same data rate and duplex mode.

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