?? gigabit etherchannel on Cisco 4006 to 6506 ???

[fpower]

Hello,

I have been asked to set up gigabit etherchannel, on a 4006 to a 6506. We are not using VLANS, only VLAN 1 for everyone, and have nothing special running on the switches except Spanning Tree and Portfast for workstations.
I can't believe that it is a simple as the command 'set portchannel 1/1-2 on' for both switches... can someone confirm and/or let me know what I am missing if anything??

Thanks for the help.

 

[ADB100]

Yep, its that simple. From a design/redundancy point of view I would Channel across modules though - but its your choice. If you channel across modules you will also need to configure an 'Admin Group' for the ports in the channel

set port channel 1/1, 2/1 <admin group>

I would arrange some downtime to do this change though as STP will see the Channel as a new port and will have to go through listening, learning, forwarding.

Andy

 

[davemiller]

like andy said it is easy.
this is a simple copy of a 6509 production config i am using
which actually etherchannels between a 6509 and 2912mfs
via 100fx (gig is the same).
set port channel 3/1-2 312
set port channel 312 mode on
set trunk 3/1-2 on dot1q 1-1005,1025-4094

you may want to read-up on pagp.
basic e-channel will give you 4 parallel pipes
and i think pagp improves that to 8, plus some added
intelligence.