Port channel in cisco WS-C6509

[u346874_2]

Hi

I am planning to do ethernet portchannel with two Gi ethernet ports. Any experience how L3 port channel works. If i put a ip address under e.g interface Port-channel1 config does it inherit/copy to interface GigabitEthernet 1/1 and 1/2 config.

interface Port-channel1
shutdown
des PortCh
no switchport
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

interface GigabitEthernet 1/1

shutdown
does ip address copy here

no switchport
channel-group 1 mode on

interface GigabitEthernet 1/2
shutdown
does ip address copy here

no switchport
channel-group 1 mode on

[Reza Sharifi]

Hi,

The IP address is assigned under the Etherchannel interface not the physical interfaces.

Have a look at this document on how to configure it:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12.1E/native/configuration/guide/channel.html

HTH

Reza

[u346874_2]

OK. thanks. So ip adress does not appear under those two Gi ethernet port config at all. It stays only under that portchannel config.

[Jon Marshall · Accepted solution]

u346874 wrote:
OK. thanks. So ip adress does not appear under those two Gi ethernet port config at all. It stays only under that portchannel config.

Correct, the IP address will only show up under the port-channel interface.

Jon