🔗 EtherChannel Configuration Guidelines 🔄

For example, Ethernet 0/1 does not need to connect to Ethernet 0/1 on the other side of the link.

🔄 The port channel number does not need to match between the switches on the opposite side of

the link. 🚥

The following are the guidelines for configuration for EtherChannel:

Speed and duplex: Configure all interfaces in an EtherChannel to operate at the same speed and

in the same duplex mode.

Interface mode: Because the port channel interface is a routed port, the no switchport command
was applied to it. The physical interfaces are, by default, switched, which is a mode that is
incompatible with a router port. The no switchport command was applied also to the physical

ports, to make their mode compatible with the EtherChannel interface mode. 🔄

Note 📝

In some IOS releases, you can only statically configure Layer 3 EtherChannel using Link
Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) or Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) because the
negotiation protocol might result in a nonfunctional link.

Verifying the EtherChannel configuration: After EtherChannel is configured, use the following

commands to verify and troubleshoot EtherChannel:

Configuration Example for Layer3 EtherChannel

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🔄 EtherChannel Technology for Better Bandwidth 🚀

Use the EtherChannel technology to bundle ports of the same type for better

bandwidth. 🌐 On a Layer 2 switch, EtherChannel is used to aggregate access ports or

trunks. EtherChannel links are used to connect to several switches, and pairs of ports

are used to create EtherChannel bundles. 🔄 Because each EtherChannel link is

detected as one logical connection, both ports of each are in forwarding mode and

hash the traffic across all links. 🚥

On Layer 3 switches, switched ports can be converted to routed ports. 🔄 These ports
do not perform switching at Layer 2 anymore but become Layer 3 ports that are

similar to those found on router platforms. 🔄 EtherChannel links can also be created

on Layer 3 links. 🔄 Layer 3 switches must connect through an aggregated link. Two
physical ports on each side are converted to routed ports and are then aggregated

into a Layer 3 EtherChannel link. 🔄 the typical Layer 2 EtherChannel between the

access layer to the Aggregation switches. 🔄 Layer 2 EtherChannel bundles access or

trunk ports between other devices, and Layer 3 EtherChannel bundles routed ports

between switches. 🔄🌐
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