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Ether Channel

EtherChannel is a technique that combines multiple physical links into a single logical link for load balancing, fault tolerance, and increased bandwidth. It can be configured using LACP, PAgP, or manually, with specific commands for each method. The protocol allows for up to eight links in a bundle, providing significant aggregate bandwidth and redundancy while maintaining consistent settings across all links.

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Ether Channel

EtherChannel is a technique that combines multiple physical links into a single logical link for load balancing, fault tolerance, and increased bandwidth. It can be configured using LACP, PAgP, or manually, with specific commands for each method. The protocol allows for up to eight links in a bundle, providing significant aggregate bandwidth and redundancy while maintaining consistent settings across all links.

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EtherChannel:

Technique to combine multiple physical link to make a single logical link for load balancing or load
sharing and fault tolerance. It is otherwise known as bundling, port channel or EtherChannel. You
can combine multiple interfaces into one of these three modes are LACP, PAgP and On. Increased
bandwidth, Increased availability, Load Sharing, Auto Configuration, Faster convergence, Cheaper
Solution, L2/L3 and can be use as trunk, access, tunnel.

1. An ether Channel is simply the logical bundling of physical trunk connections; this allows the
use of all trunks rather than just one.
It is like binding more than one physical port and makes them to work as a single.
2. Ether channel need not be between trunk links. It can be or any Ethernet link.
3. The link within bundle must have same crust such as duplexing speed.
4. The minimum 2 and maximum 8 numbers of physical trunks that can be placed into a single
Ether Channel.
5. Channel-group 1 mode on command place a trunk port into an EtherChannel.
6. Port-Channel interface is a logical interface just like the loopback and that is the logical
representation of any EtherChannel.
7. If one link inside an EtherChannel goes down, the port cost of the port-channel will go up
since less bandwidth is available, but the EtherChannel itself will not go down.
8. EtherChannel bundles up to eight individual Ethernet links into a single logical link that
provides an aggregate bandwidth of up to 800 Mbps (Fast EtherChannel), 8 Gbps (Gigabit
EtherChannel), or 80 Gbps (10 Gigabit EtherChannel). You can use the Port Aggregation
Protocol (PAgP), PAgP is a cisco-proprietary protocol and LACP (Link Aggregation Control
Protocol) is defined in IEEE.

LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol):


Link Aggregation Control Protocol is the standard 802.ad. You combine multiple links into a single
logical link to increase bandwidth and redundancy. All links participating in a single logical link must
have the same settings such as duplex mode, link speed, and interface mode such as access or trunk.
You can have up to 16 ports in an LACP EtherChannel but only eight can be active at a time. LACP can
be configured in either passive or active mode. In active mode, the port actively tries to bring up
LACP. In passive mode, it does not initiate the negotiation of LACP

Description Commands
Selecting range of interfaces Sw(Config)#interface range f0/1 – 2
Set trunk encapsulation Sw(Config-if-range) # switchport trunk encap dot1q
Make selected interface trunk Sw(Config-if-range) # switchport mode trunk
Set EtherChannel protocol LACP Sw(Config-if-range)#channel-protocol lacp
Set LACP mode active or Passive Sw(Config-if-range)# channel-group 1 mode active
Verify EtherChannel summary Sw# show etherchannel summary
To verify Etherchannel details Sw# show etherchannel detail

PAgP (Port Aggregation Protocol):


Cisco’s proprietary Port Aggregation Protocol. It also creates EtherChannel links and is configured
similarly to LACP. Configuring PAgP properly and it will automatically configure individual ports into a
single logical link. There are two modes for PAgP: show etherchannel summary
AUTO: this is the passive negotiating state. Having two ends of a PAgP link in auto mode will not
result in a PAgP link because neither will negotiate to bring up the PAgP EtherChannel. PAgP
Protocol data units (PDUs) are sent and received on the lowest numbered VLAN of the trunk link.
You can have up to eight ports in a single PAgP EtherChannel. Just like LACP, all ports in a PAgP
EtherChannel must have the same speed and duplex settings.

Description Commands
Selecting range of interfaces Sw(config)# interface range fa0/1 – 2
Change Trunk Encapsulation Sw(config-if-range) #switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
Change interface mode to trunk Sw(config-if-range) #switchport mode trunk
Set EtherChannel protocol PAgP Sw(config-if-range) #channel-protocol pagp
Set PAgP mode auto and desirable Sw(config-if-range)#chanel-group 1 mode auto
Verify EtherChannel Summary Sw# show etherchannel summary
Verify EtherChannel details SW# show etherchannel detail

EtherChannel Manual:
Swicthports can be con figured to bypass LACP or PAgP by simply changing the mode to on. This
mode is used to manually configure EtherChannel. This mode can be used if the device on the other
end doesn’t support PAgP or LACP.

Description Commands
Selecting range of interfaces SW(config)#interface range fa0/1-2
Set encapsulation to dot1q SW(config-if-range) #swicthport trunk
Change interfaces mode to Trunk encapsulation dot1q
Set manually mode on SW(config-if-range) #switchport mode trunk
SW(config-if-range)#channel-group 1 mode on
Verify etherChannel summary SW# show etherchannel summary
Verify etherchannel details SW# show etherchannel detail
Verify EtherChannel port Channel SW# show etherchannel port-channel

Layer 3 EtherChannel:
Description Commands
Selecting range of interfaces SW(config)#interface range f0/1-2
Set interface range to layer 3(no switch) SW(config-if-range) #no switchport
Remove any IP from interface range SW(config-if-range) #no ip address
Set manually mode on SW(config-if-range)#channel-group 1 mode on
Verify EtherChannel summary SW# show etherchannel summary
Verify EtherChannel details SW# show etherchannel detail
Verify EtherChannel port channel SW# show etherchannel port-channel

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