Two Physical Redundent Connections to a Single Switch

[Ver17]

The co-location I am using offers two physical ethernet connections for me to use as redundency which they call SLA.

My question is.... using either a Cisco 2924 IOS Switch or a Cisco 5000 COS Switch (I have not decided which to ship over yet) what do I need to do to connect both cables to the switch and enable redundency over the two connections? What is the name, if any, of the feature/command I would need to enable this on the Cisco switch?

If someone could just point me in the right direction I can find the rest of the info on my own.... I don't need details, I just need a place to start looking....

Thanks in advance

 

[robertjo24]

You can either:
Let spanning tree take care of the links, so that one link will be active, the other blocked, until the primary linK goes away
Or use what Cisco refers to as etherchannel, and you can basically have two paths together working in load sharing/balancing configuration, then if one fails the other continues to work.