RE: Trunk + Ether channel question.

From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 14:57:14 GMT-3


        When you apply a configuration to the port-channel interface the
member interfaces of the channel automatically inherit that
configuration.

HTH,

Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> PANDI MOORTHY
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:57 AM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: Trunk + Ether channel question.
>
> Hi Group,
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> Trunk + Ether channel question.
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> The question asks to configure the industry standard ether channel and
> trunk
> in there of the switch interfaces.
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> The IE solution guide config as below:
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> interface FastEthernet0/13
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> channel-group 1 mode active
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> !
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> interface FastEthernet0/14
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> channel-group 1 mode active
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> !
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> interface FastEthernet0/15
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> channel-group 1 mode active
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> !
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> interface Port-channel1
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> switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
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> switchport mode trunk
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> 1) Based on the solution, the dot1q is configured only at the port
channel
> (LACP) interface. So the interface in this group will be automatically
be
> the trunk port, is it correct??
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> 2) On other way, if the question asks to configure LACP port channel
with
> ISL trunk, can I follow the same setup, I mean just configure the
trunk at
> the port channel interface, will it be enough??
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> Basically I am confused, on IE solution, for some scenario they apply
> trunk
> configuration at both port channel and FE interfaces. In the above
case
> applied only at the port channel interface.
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> Sorry to sent many question, Please advice me.
>
> Regards.
> Pandi
>
>



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