Re: Etherchannel XOR on 3 and 5 ports etherchannel

I guess three bits should be correct as we can use maximum of 8 ports in a
ether channel.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Martin Dean <mdean_at_diatac.com> wrote:

> See
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk213/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094714.shtml#topic1
> for some info, but not much.
> It says it uses 3 bits for any number of ports per channel, not sure if
> that is correct.
>
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> Subject: Etherchannel XOR on 3 and 5 ports etherchannel
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> I have no problem understanding this when using Etherchannel with 2,4 or 8
>> ports in a bundel. But if you have 5 or 7 ports in the bundel.
>> Exampel from Cisco.
>>
>> 192.168.10.1 and 172.24.50.6
>>
>> 1 = 00000001 and 6 = 00000110
>>
>> 2 port etherchannel port (0-1) 1XOR0 =1 eq port 1
>> 4 port etherchannel port (0-3) 01XOR10 = 11 eq port 3
>> 8 port etherchannel port (0-7) 001XIR110 = 111 eq port 7
>>
>> now if you have 5 or 5 porst what happends?
>> What bits are used?
>>
>> 3 port channel port (0-2)
>> or
>> 5 port channel port (0-4)
>>
>> How will this work?
>>
>> Regards Hasse
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