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
•STP, VLAN, and IGMP settings can only be made for the entire trunk via the specified
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-id no channel-group
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
•Use no interfaces
•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.