From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 06:14:47 ART
Chris,
Like yourself I found the keeping of both ends shut down until all is
configured does save a lot of problems.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Riling" <criling@gmail.com>
To: "CCIE Group Study CCIE Group Study" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: Trunk mode under Etherchannel
> I'm not sure whether you HAVE to or not, but I always configure both; only
> takes a second to throw the port channel interface into a range command,
> and
> it can save you troubleshooting time later... I've ran into some funky
> problems if they're not all EXACTLY the same, and even then sometimes they
> still act weird, that's why (as someone else noted as well) I listen to
> what
> Anthony Seqeuira told me once, and shut both sides down (physical and
> logical) until they're both configured exactly how I want them, then go do
> a
> no shut... It has saved me a lot of troubeshooting time with flapping port
> channels, etc...
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 10/15/07, Jonny English <redkidneybeans@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> you need to configure both.
>>
>> but if you configure the port-channel interface it will update the
>> physical
>> interface configuration.
>>
>> Here, i even tested it for you
>>
>> sw1(config)#int fa1/0/1
>> sw1(config-if)#channel-group 1 mode on
>> Creating a port-channel interface Port-channel 1
>>
>> sw1(config-if)#do sh run int fa1/0/1
>> Building configuration...
>>
>> Current configuration : 60 bytes
>> !
>> interface FastEthernet1/0/1
>> channel-group 1 mode on
>> end
>>
>> sw1(config-if)#int po1
>> sw1(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
>> sw1(config-if)#switchport mode trunk
>> sw1(config-if)#do sh run int fa1/0/1
>> Building configuration...
>>
>> Current configuration : 121 bytes
>> !
>> interface FastEthernet1/0/1
>> switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
>> switchport mode trunk
>> channel-group 1 mode on
>> end
>>
>>
>> sw1(config-if)#do sh run int po1
>> Building configuration...
>>
>> Current configuration : 92 bytes
>> !
>> interface Port-channel1
>> switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
>> switchport mode trunk
>> end
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> On 10/16/07, fadel lubbos <fadellubbos@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi GS
>> >
>> >
>> > If I have three switch ports and want to bundle them under group 1 for
>> > example, is it required to configure the port-channel to be in trunk
>> mode
>> > also, or only the group members? regards,
>> >
>> >
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