Thursday, August 19, 2010

CISCO -- Create Etherchannel port on CISCO 3560 12.2.53 SE2

Today, I'll create Etherchannel Port on CISCO Catalyst 3560G for our storage. Here is the steps i performed on the siwtch.

Create Channel Group and assign Ports
sw3560g> enable
sw3560g# configure Terminal
sw3560g<'config># interface range gi0/17-18
sw3560g<'config-if-range># switchport mode access
sw3560g<'config-if-range># switchport access vlan 2
sw3560g<'config-if-range># channel-group 1 mode active
sw3560g<'config-if-range># end
sw3560g# show etherchannel 1 detail  <=Check the status of Etherchannel
sw3560g# copy running-config startup-config

Change Etherchannle Load-Balance Mode
sw3560g> enable
sw3560g# configure terminal
sw3560g<'config># port-channel load-balance src-mac
sw3560g<'config># end
sw3560g# show etherchannel load-balance  <=Check the load-balance mode
sw3560g# copy running-config startup-config

Update-20100820
After implemented the etherchannel on switch, I found the switch shows lots of ports flapping messages in log. After google some solution and found that the issue was caused by third party device is not support LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) mode. for this reason, I reset the channel-group mode from Active to On mode and the event log disappeared.