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EtherChannel between 3725 Router and 3560 Switch

jstarkey4
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I have established the Etherchannel on the router using both FastEthernet ports, and assigned no ip address on the actual ports and assigned it to Po1. I then setup an EtherChannel on the switch using ports 1 and 3, again...nothing special. Ports 1 and 3 happen to belong to a VLAN...say vLAN 3 as well as port 5, which I have been using as a test port to ping the different interfaces. With no etherchannels setup I can ping the different ports fine...once I establish the etherchannel I can no longer ping the router ports, or ping from the router to the switch or the test node. But I can ping from the switch to the Node, and vice versa. So it appears to be something related to the Etherchannel on the router. Is there a systematic way to trouble shoot this issue, or anything I should look for that would prevent the router from working properly with EtherChannel?

Thanks,

Jason

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damonstarkey
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I could use an answer on this as well. Does anyone have and ideas that they can share with us here? Thanks!

Sureshdank
Level 1
Level 1

Jason,

Can you please explain your network ode clearly.

Where are all your vlans configured and where are you doing Inter-Vlan routing.

Why r u trying to configure ehterchannel between the router and switch.

Regards,

Suresh

Hey Jason,

It would be helpful if you post the configuration that you have on your switch and router. Moreover it would be better if you explain your network a little bit. It would be easier to help you that way.

Regards,

AbhisheK

The reason for the ehterchannel between the router and the switch is to provide more bandwidth and some sort of load balancing and redundancy. The initial part of the network is T3 into the 3725 router, which will connect up to a VLAN, where a firewall will also connect. That particular VLAN is setup on the 3560 switch, which you can see in the config files. That is the initial part of the network...where we are having troubles setting it up.

I have of course changed the IP addresses, but you can see them identified accordingly.

ROUTER CONFIG

!

version 12.3

service timestamps debug datetime msec

service timestamps log datetime msec

service password-encryption

service sequence-numbers

!

hostname routername

!

boot-start-marker

boot system flash c3725-ipbase-mz.123-17a.bin

boot-end-marker

!

card type t3 1

logging buffered 20000 debugging

no logging console

enable secret

!

clock timezone EST -5

clock summer-time EDT recurring

no aaa new-model

ip subnet-zero

no ip source-route

ip icmp rate-limit unreachable 100

ip cef

!

!

!

no ip bootp server

no ip domain lookup

!

controller T3 1/0

!

interface Port-channel1

ip address "IP Address 1A" 255.255.255.128

no ip redirects

no ip proxy-arp

hold-queue 0 in

!

interface FastEthernet0/0

description Internal 1

no ip address

speed 100

full-duplex

channel-group 1

!

interface FastEthernet0/1

no ip address

speed 100

full-duplex

channel-group 1

!

interface Serial1/0

(This shouldn't matter but if it does let me know, and I can provide some of the config)

!

ip default-gateway "IP Address 1B"

ip classless

no ip http server

!

SWITCH CONFIG

!

version 12.2

no service pad

service timestamps debug uptime

service timestamps log datetime

service password-encryption

service sequence-numbers

!

hostname switchname

!

enable secret

!

no aaa new-model

clock timezone UTC -5

clock summer-time UTC recurring

ip subnet-zero

no ip domain-lookup

ip domain-name domainname

!

!

mls qos

!

!

no file verify auto

spanning-tree mode pvst

spanning-tree extend system-id

!

vlan internal allocation policy ascending

!

interface Port-channel1

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/1

description RouterFE

switchport access vlan 2

switchport mode access

duplex full

speed 100

channel-group 1 mode active

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/2

description

switchport access vlan 2

switchport mode access

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/3

description RouterFE

switchport access vlan 2

switchport mode access

duplex full

speed 100

channel-group 1 mode active

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/4

description

switchport access vlan 2

switchport mode access

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/5

description TestPort

switchport access vlan 2

switchport mode access

duplex full

speed 1000

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/6

shutdown

(the rest of the ports are shut down but will be on vlan 1)

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/49

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport mode trunk

macro description cisco-switch

auto qos voip trust

spanning-tree link-type point-to-point

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/50

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport mode trunk

macro description cisco-switch

auto qos voip trust

spanning-tree link-type point-to-point

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/51

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport mode trunk

macro description cisco-switch

auto qos voip trust

spanning-tree link-type point-to-point

!

interface GigabitEthernet0/52

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q

switchport mode trunk

macro description cisco-switch

auto qos voip trust

spanning-tree link-type point-to-point

!

interface Vlan1

ip address "IP Address 1C" 255.255.255.0

no ip route-cache

!

interface Vlan2

no ip address "IP Address 2A"

no ip route-cache

!

ip default-gateway "IP Address 2C"

ip classless

ip http server

!

Hope this helps.

Thanks again!

Jason

Try setting the switch etherchannel mode to on instead of active.

We will try this on the switch. Does it make a difference what load-balance setting we use?

That is really up to you how to load balance and how the traffic is , you may have to play with that if you find all traffic is going down one link .

Jason,

What I think is having etherchannel between the router and switch is not that recommended.

Supose if you configure etherchannel on switch the bandwidth becomes 200Mbps but when on the router you are connected with T3 link. So, that may cause congestion on your router.

You can also connect your devices in this order if you want. From your router connect to Firewall and from there you connect to switch. So you firewall will do all the access control functions. And if your firewall has extra port then you can connect both interfaces of your firewall to interfaces of router and do load balancing between the two ports on firewall.

HTH

Regards,

Suresh

Etherchannel involves the user of more than one fastEthernet/GIGE port. You don't configure to a setrial interface on the router.

If you have 2 Ethernet interfaces and you want to aggregate their bandwidth to make a single logical link, then you configure them both for etherchannel.

bsoth
Level 1
Level 1

Perform the show portchannel and sh etherchannel commands to determine if yuo have it set up. the other thing to look at is how you set up the Trunk- Did you set it to something other than ON? If you use ON, use AUTO or ON on the other end. If you use auto, you must turn trunking ON on one end, otherwise etherchannel will not come up, as the "auto" command will negotiate only if asked to become a trunk by a designated trunk port. Its that easy...

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