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Chapter 3:
Campus Network
Architecture
CCNP SWITCH: Implementing Cisco IP Switched
Networks

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Chapter 3 Objectives
 Implementing VLANs and trunks in campus switched
architecture
 Understanding the concept of VTP and its limitation and
configurations
 Implementing and configuring EtherChannel

Chapter 3
Implementing
VLANs and
Trunks in
Campus
Environment

Chapter 3
Implementing VLANs and Trunks in Campus
Environment
 Within the switched internetwork, VLANs provide
segmentation and organizational flexibility.
 VLANs help administrators to have the end node or
workstations group that are segmented logically by
functions, project teams, and applications, without regard to
the physical location of the users.
 VLANs allow you to implement access and security policies
to particular groups of users and limit the broadcast domain.
 The voice VLAN feature enables access ports to carry IP
voice traffic from an IP phone. Because the sound quality of
an IP phone call can deteriorate if the data is unevenly sent,
the switch supports quality of service (QoS).

Chapter 3
VLAN Overview

Chapter 3
VLAN Segmentation
 Larger flat networks generally consist of many end devices in
which broadcasts and unknown unicast packets are flooded on
all ports in the network.
 One advantage of using VLANs is the capability to segment the
Layer 2 broadcast domain. All devices in a VLAN are members
of the same broadcast domain. If an end device transmits a
Layer 2 broadcast, all other members of the VLAN receive the
broadcast.
 Switches filter the broadcast from all the ports or devices that are
not part of the same VLAN.
 In a campus design, a network administrator can design a
campus network with one of two models:
• End-to-End VLANs
• Local VLANs.
 Each model has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Chapter 3
End-to-End VLANs
 End-to-End VLAN refers to a single VLAN that is associated
with switch ports widely dispersed throughout an enterprise
network on multiple switches.

Chapter 3
End-to-End VLAN Model Characteristics
 Each VLAN is dispersed geographically throughout the
network.
 Users are grouped into each VLAN regardless of the
physical location.
 As a user moves throughout a campus, the VLAN
membership of that user remains the same, regardless of
the physical switch to which this user attaches.
 Users are typically associated with a given VLAN for
network management reasons. This is why they are kept in
the same VLAN, therefore the same group, as they move
through the campus.
 All devices on a given VLAN typically have addresses on
the same IP subnet.
 Switches commonly operate in a server/client VTP mode.

Chapter 3
Local VLANs
 In a local VLAN model, all users of a set of geographically
common switches are grouped into a single VLAN,
regardless of the organizational function of those users.

Chapter 3
Local VLAN Model Characteristics
 The network administrator should create local VLANs with
physical boundaries in mind rather than the job functions of the
users on the end devices.
 Generally, local VLANs exist between the access and distribution
levels.
 Traffic from a local VLAN is routed at the distribution and core
levels to reach destinations on other networks.
 Configure the VTP mode in transparent mode because VLANs on
a given access switch should not be advertised to all other
switches in the network, nor do they need to be manually created
in any other switch VLAN databases.
 A network that consists entirely of local VLANs can benefit from
increased convergence times offered via routing protocols,
instead of a spanning tree for Layer 2 networks. It is usually
recommended to have one to three VLANs per access layer
switch.

Chapter 3
Comparison of End-to-End VLANs and Local
VLANs
Reasons for implementing the end-to-end design:
 Grouping users
• Users can be grouped on a common IP segment, even though they
are geographically dispersed.
 Security
• A VLAN can contain resources that should not be accessible to all
users on the network, or there might be a reason to confine certain
traffic to a particular VLAN.
 Applying quality of service (QoS)
• Traffic can be a higher- or lower-access priority to network resources
from a given VLAN.

Chapter 3
VLANs
Reasons for implementing the end-to-end design (cont.):
 Routing avoidance
• If much of the VLAN user traffic is destined for devices on that same
VLAN.
 Special-purpose VLAN
• Sometimes a VLAN is provisioned to carry a single type of traffic that
must be dispersed throughout the campus (for example, multicast,
voice, or visitor VLANs).
 Poor design
• For no clear purpose, users are placed in VLANs that span the
campus or even span WANs. Sometimes when a network is already
configured and running, organizations are hesitant to improve the
design because of downtime or other political reasons.

Chapter 3
VLANs
 Reasons for implementing the Local Vlan design:
 Deterministic traffic flow
• The simple layout provides a predictable Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic path.
 Active redundant paths
• When implementing Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST) or Multiple
Spanning Tree (MST) because there is no loop, all links can be used to
make use of the redundant paths.
 High availability
• Redundant paths exist at all infrastructure levels.
 Finite failure domain
• If VLANs are local to a switch block, and the number of devices on each
VLAN is kept small, failures at Layer 2 are confined to a small subset of
users.
 Scalable design
• Following the enterprise campus architecture design, new access
switches can be easily incorporated, and new submodules can be added
when necessary.

Chapter 3
VLANs
End-to-End VLANs drawbacks:
 Switch ports are provisioned for each user and associated with a
given VLAN. Because users on an end-to-end VLAN can be
anywhere in the network, all switches must be aware of that
VLAN. This means that all switches carrying traffic for end-to-end
VLANs are required to have those specific VLANs defined in
each switch’s VLAN database.
 Flooded traffic for the VLAN is, by default, passed to every switch
even if it does not currently have any active ports in the particular
end-to-end VLAN.
 Troubleshooting devices on a campus with end-to-end VLANs
can be challenging because the traffic for a single VLAN can
traverse multiple switches in a large area of the campus, and that
can easily cause potential spanning-tree problems.

Chapter 3
Implementing a Trunk in a Campus
Environment
 A trunk is a point-to-point link that carries the traffic for
multiple VLANs across a single physical link between the
two switches or any two devices.
 Trunking is used to extend Layer 2 operations across an
entire network.

Chapter 3
Trunking Protocols
 A special protocol is used to carry multiple VLANs over a
single link between two devices.
There are two trunking technologies:
 Inter-Switch Link (ISL): A Cisco proprietary trunking
encapsulation
 IEEE 802.1Q: An industry-standard trunking method

Chapter 3
ISL Frame

Chapter 3
802.1Q Frame

Chapter 3
IEEE 802.1Q/802.1p advantages over ISL
 802.1Q has smaller frame overhead than ISL. As a result,
802.1Q is more efficient than ISL, especially in the case of
small frames. 802.1Q overhead is 4 bytes, whereas ISL is
30 bytes.
 802.1Q is a widely supported industry standard protocol.
 802.1Q has the support for 802.1p fields for QoS.

Chapter 3
802.1Q tag
 Inserted 802.1Q tag (4 bytes, detailed here)
• EtherType(TPID): Set to 0x8100 to specify that the 802.1Q tag
follows.
• PRI: 3-bit 802.1p priority field.
• CFI: Canonical Format Identifier is always set to 0 for Ethernet
switches and to 1 for Token Ring-type networks.
• VLAN ID: 12-bit VLAN field. Of the 4096 possible VLAN IDs, the
maximum number of possible VLAN configurations is 4094. A VLAN
ID of 0 indicates priority frames, and value 4095 (FFF) is reserved.

Chapter 3
Understanding Native VLAN in 802.1Q Trunking
 A frequent configuration error is to have different native
VLANs. The native VLAN that is configured on each end of
an 802.1Q trunk must be the same.
 Cisco switches use Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) to warn
of a native VLAN mismatch
 By default, the native VLAN will be VLAN 1.
 Switch(config-if)# switchport trunk native vlan vlan-id

Chapter 3
Understanding DTP

Chapter 3
DTP Modes Combination

Chapter 3
VLAN Ranges and Mappings
 ISL supports VLAN numbers in the range of 1 to 1005,
whereas 802.1Q VLAN numbers are in the range of 1 to
4094.
 The default behavior of VLAN trunks is to permit all normal
and extended-range VLANs across the link if it is an 802.1Q
interface and to permit normal VLANs in the case of an ISL
interface.

Chapter 3
Supported VLAN on Catalyst Switchs

Chapter 3
VLAN Ranges

Chapter 3
Configuring, Verifying, and Troubleshooting
VLANs and Trunks
Step 1. Enter global configuration mode:
• Switch# configure terminal
Step 2. Create a new VLAN with a particular ID number:
• Switch(config)# vlan vlan-id
Step 3. (Optional.) Name the VLAN:
• Switch(config-vlan)# name vlan-name

Chapter 3
Assigning an Access Port to a VLAN
Step 1. From global configuration mode, enter the
configuration mode for the particular port you want to add to
the VLAN:
• Switch(config)# interface interface-id
Step 2. Specify the port as an access port:
• Switch(config-if)# switchport mode access
• Switch(config-if)# switchport host
Step 3. Remove or place the port in a particular VLAN:
• Switch(config-if)# [ no ] switchport access vlan vlan-id

Chapter 3
Assigning an Access Port to a VLAN

Chapter 3
Verifying the VLAN Configuration

Chapter 3
Displaying Information About the Interface

Chapter 3
Displaying Detailed Switch Port Information

Chapter 3
Displaying MAC Address Table Information

Chapter 3
Topology to Configure VLAN and Trunking

Chapter 3
Configuring VLANs and Trunks
Step 1. Create VLAN 20 on both switches.
• SW1(config)# vlan 20
• SW1(config-vlan)# exit
• % Applying VLAN changes may take few minutes. Please wait...
Step 2. On SW1/2 configure port Ethernet 0/2 to be an access port and assign it to
VLAN 20
• SW1(config)# interface ethernet 0/2
• SW1(config-if)# switchport mode access
• SW1(config-if)# switchport access vlan 20
Step 3. Configure ports that connect SW1 and SW2 as trunks. Use the dot1Q
encapsulation.
• Trunk configuration on SW1:
• SW1(config)# interface Ethernet 1/1
• SW1(config-if)# switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
• SW1(config-if)# switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,20
• SW1(config-if)# switchport mode trunk
• Trunk configuration on SW2:
• SW2(config)# interface Ethernet 1/2
• SW2(config-if)# switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
• SW2(config-if)# switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,20
• SW2(config-if)# switchport mode trunk

Chapter 3
Verify Trunking

Chapter 3
Best Practices for VLANs and Trunking
 For the Local VLANs model, it is usually recommended to have only one
to three VLANs per access module.
 Avoid using VLAN 1 as the black hole for all unused ports.
 Try to always have separate voice VLANs, data VLANs, management
VLANs, native VLANs, black hole VLANs, and default VLANs (VLAN 1).
 In the local VLANs model, avoid VTP; it is feasible to use manually
allowed VLANs in a network on trunks.
 For trunk ports, turn off DTP and configure it manually.
 Use IEEE 802.1Q rather than ISL because it has better support for QoS
and is a standard protocol.
 Manually configure access ports that are not specifically intended for a
trunk link.
 Prevent all data traffic from VLAN 1; only permit control protocols to run
on VLAN 1 (DTP, VTP, STP bridge protocol data units [BPDUs], Port
Aggregation Protocol [PAgP], Link Aggregation Control Protocol [LACP],
Cisco Discovery Protocol [CDP], and such.).
 Avoid using Telnet because of security risks; enable Secure Shell (SSH)
support on management VLANs.

Chapter 3
Best Practices for VLANs and Trunking
 DTP is useful when the status of the switch on the other end
of the link is uncertain or might be changing over time.
When the link is to be set to trunk in a stable manner,
changing both ends to trunk nonegotiate accelerates the
convergence time, saving up to 2 seconds upon boot time.
We recommend this mode on stable links between switches
that are part of the same core infrastructure.
 On trunk links, it is recommended to manually prune the
VLANs that are not used.
 It is also a good practice to have an unused VLAN as a
native VLAN on the trunk links to prevent DTP spoofing.
 If trunking is not used on a port, you can disable it with the
interface level command switchport host .

Chapter 3
Voice VLAN Overview
 Multiservice switches support a new parameter for IP
telephony support that makes the access port a multi-VLAN
access port.
 The new parameter is called a voice or auxiliary VLAN .
Every Ethernet 10/100/1000 port in the switch is associated
with two VLANs:
• A native VLAN for data service that is identified by the PVID
• A voice VLAN that is identified by the voice VLAN ID (VVID)
 During the initial CDP exchange with the access switch, the
IP phone is configured with a VVID.
 The IP phone is also supplied with a QoS configuration
using CDP.

Chapter 3
Voice VLAN Overview

Chapter 3
Switch Configuration for Wireless Network
Support
 Cisco offers the following two WLAN implementations:
• The standalone WLAN solution is based on autonomous (standalone)
access points (APs).
• The controller-based WLAN solution is based on controller-based APs
and WLCs (Wireless LAN Controllers).

Chapter 3
Autonomous WLAN
 In the autonomous (or standalone) solution, each AP operates
independently and acts as a transition point between the wireless
media and the 802.3 media.
 The data traffic between two clients flows via the Layer 2 switch
when on the same subnet from a different AP infrastructure. As
the AP converts the IEEE 802.11 frame into an 802.3 frame, the
wireless client MAC address is transferred to the 802.3 headers
and appears as the source for the switch.
 The destination, also a wireless client, appears as the destination
MAC address.

Chapter 3
Controller-Based WLAN
 In a controller-based solution, management, control,
deployment, and security functions are moved to a central
point: the wireless controller.
 To implement a wireless network, APs and switches need
to be configured. APs can be configured directly
(autonomous APs) or through a controller (lightweight APs).
 Either way, configuring APs is a domain of the WLAN
specialist. On the switch side, just configure VLANs and
trunks on switches to support WLAN.

Chapter 3
VLAN Trunking
Protocol

Chapter 3
VLAN Trunking Protocol
 VTP overview
 VTP modes
 VTP versions
 VTP pruning
 VTP authentication
 VTP advertisements
 VTP configuration and verifications
 VTP configuration overwriting
 VTP best practices

Chapter 3
VTP Overview
 VTP is a Layer 2 protocol that maintains VLAN configuration
consistency by managing the additions, deletions, and name changes of
VLANs across networks
 Switches transmit VTP messages only on 802.1Q or ISL trunks.
 Cisco switches transmit VTP summary advertisements over the
management VLAN (VLAN 1 by default) using a Layer 2 multicast frame
every 5 minutes.
 VTP domain is one switch or several interconnected switches sharing
the same VTP environment but switch can be only in one VTP domain
at any time.
 By default, a Cisco Catalyst switch is in the no-management-domain
state or <null> until it receives an advertisement for a domain over a
trunk link or until you configure a management domain.
 Configurations that are made on a single VTP server are propagated
across trunk links to all of the connected switches in the network.
 Configurations will be exchanged if VTP domain and VTP passwords
match.
 VTP is a Cisco proprietary protocol.

Chapter 3
VTP Propagation
Step 1. An administrator adds a new VLAN definition.
Step 2. VTP propagates the VLAN information to all switches
in the VTP domain.
Step 3. Each switch synchronizes its configuration to
incorporate the new VLAN data.

Chapter 3
VTP Modes

Chapter 3
VTP Operation
 By default, Cisco IOS VTP servers and clients save VLANs
to the vlan.dat file in flash memory, causing them to retain
the VLAN table and revision number.
 The erase startup-config command does not affect the
vlan.dat file on switches in VTP client and server modes.
 Switches that are in VTP transparent mode display the
VLAN and VTP configurations in the show running-config
command output because this information is stored in the
configuration text file.
 If you perform erase startup-config on a VTP transparent
switch you will delete its VLANs.

Chapter 3
VTP Versions
 Cisco Catalyst switches support three different versions of
VTP: 1, 2, and 3.
 It is importante to decide which version to use because they
are not interoperable.
 Cisco recommends running only one VTP version for
network stability.
 The default VTP version that is enabled on a Cisco switch is
Version 1.
 If you do need to change the version of VTP in the domain,
the only thing that you need to do is to enable it on the VTP
server; the change will propagate throughout the network.

Chapter 3
VTP Version 1 and 2
 Version-dependent transparent mode
• VTP Version 1, a VTP transparent network device inspects VTP
messages for the domain name and version
• VTP Version 2 forwards VTP messages in transparent mode, without
checking the version.
 Consistency check
• In VTP Version 2, VLAN consistency checks, such as VLAN names
and values, are performed.
 Token ring support
• VTP Version 2 supports Token Ring LAN switching and VLANs.
 Unrecognized type-length-value support
• VTP Version 2 switches propagate received configuration change
messages out other trunk links, even if they are not able to
understand the message.

Chapter 3
VTP Version 3
 Extended VLAN support
• VTP also can be used to propagate extended VLANs
 Domain name is not automatically learned
• With VTPv2, a factory default switch that receives a VTP message will
adapt the new VTP domain name.
 Better security
• VTP domain password is secure during transmission and in the
switch’s database.
 Better database propagation.
• Only the primary server is allowed to update other devices and only
one server per VTP domain is allowed to have this role.
 Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) support
• VTPv3 adds support for propagation of MST instances.

Chapter 3
VTP Pruning

Chapter 3
VTP Authentication
 VTP domains can be secured by using the VTP password
feature.
 It is important to make sure that all the switches in the VTP
domain have the same password and domain name;
otherwise, a switch will not become a member of the VTP
domain.
 Cisco switches use the message digest 5 (MD5) algorithm
to encode passwords in 16-byte words.
 These passwords propagate inside VTP summary
advertisements.
 In VTP, passwords are case sensitive and can be 8 to 64
characters in length.
 The use of VTP authentication is a recommended practice.

Chapter 3
VTP Advertisements

Chapter 3
VTP Messages Types
 Summary Advertisements
• By default, Catalyst switches issue summary advertisements in 5-
minute increments. Summary advertisements inform adjacent
Catalysts of the current VTP domain name and the configuration
revision number.
• When the switch receives a summary advertisement packet, the
switch compares the VTP domain name to its own VTP domain name.
• If the name differs, the switch simply ignores the packet.
• If the name is the same, the switch then compares the configuration
revision to its own revision.
• If its own configuration revision is higher or equal, the packet is
ignored. If it is lower, an advertisement request is sent.

Chapter 3
VTP Messages Types
 Subset Advertisements
• When you add, delete, or change a VLAN in a Catalyst server, the
Catalyst server where the changes are made increments the
configuration revision and issues a summary advertisement.
• One or several subset advertisements follow the summary
advertisement.
• A subset advertisement contains a list of VLAN information.
 Advertisement Requests are sent when:
• The switch has been reset.
• The VTP domain name has been changed.
• The switch has received a VTP summary advertisement with a higher
configuration revision than its own.
• Upon receipt of an advertisement request, a VTP device sends a
summary advertisement.One or more subset advertisements follow
the summary advertisement.

Chapter 3
Configuring and Verifying VTP
 Step 1. Configure VTP on all the switches, Switch 1 and
Switch 3 as client mode where as Switch2 as server mode

Chapter 3
Overwriting VTP Configuration
(Very Common Issue with VTP)

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Chapter 3
VTP Key Points
 Avoid, as much as possible, VLANs that span the entire
network.
 The VTP revision number is stored in NVRAM and is not
reset if you erase the switch configuration and reload it. To
reset the VTP revision number to zero, use the following
two options:
• Change the switch’s VTP domain to a nonexistent VTP domain, and
then change the domain back to the original name.
• Change the switch’s VTP mode to transparent and then back to the
previous VTP mode.

Chapter 3
Best Practices for VTP Implementation
 VTP is often used in a new network to facilitate the
implementation of VLANs.
 However, as the network grows larger, this benefit can turn
into a liability.
 If a VLAN is deleted by accident on one server, it is deleted
throughout the network.
 If a switch that already has a VLAN database defined is
inserted into the network, it can hijack the VLAN database
by deleting added VLANs.
 Because of this, it is the recommended practice to configure
all switches to transparent VTP mode and manually add
VLANs as needed, especially in a larger campus network.
 VTP configuration is usually good for small environments.

Chapter 3
Implementing
EtherChannel in a
Switched
Network

Chapter 3
Implementing EtherChannel in a Switched
Network
 The need for EtherChannel technology
 Port aggregation negotiation protocols
 Configuration steps for bundling interfaces into a Layer 2
EtherChannel
 Configuring EtherChannel
 Changing EtherChannel load-balancing behavior
 How EtherChannel load-balancing works
 The role of EtherChannel Guard

Chapter 3
The Need for EtherChannel

Chapter 3
EtherChannel Overview
 EtherChannel is a technology that was originally developed
by Cisco as a LAN switchto- switch technique of grouping
several Fast or Gigabit Ethernet ports into one logical
channel.
 This technology has many benefits:
• It relies on the existing switch ports. There is no need to upgrade the
switch-to-switch link to a faster and more expensive connection.
• Most of the configuration tasks can be done on the EtherChannel
interface instead of on each individual port, thus ensuring
configuration consistency throughout the switch-to-switch links.
• Load balancing is possible between the links that are part of the same
EtherChannel. Depending on the hardware platform, you can
implement one or several methods, such as source-MAC to
destination-MAC or source-IP to destination-IP load balancing across
the physical links.

Chapter 3
EtherChannel Mode Interactions
 EtherChannel can be established using one of the following
three mechanisms:
• LACP: IEEE’s negotiation protocol
• PAgP: Cisco’s negotiation protocol
• Static persistence: No negotiation protocol

Chapter 3
LACP
 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is part of an IEEE
specification (802.3ad) that allows several physical ports to
be bundled together to form a single logical channel. LACP
allows a switch to negotiate an automatic bundle by sending
LACP packets to the peer.
 It ensures that when EtherChannel is created, all ports have
the same type of configuration speed, duplex setting, and
VLAN information. Any port modification after the creation of
the channel will also change all the other channel ports.
 The switch with the lowest system priority is allowed to
make decisions about what ports actively participate in
EtherChannel.

Chapter 3
LACP
 Ports become active according to their port priority.
 A lower number means higher priority.
 Commonly up to 16 links can be assigned to an
EtherChannel, but only 8 can be active at a time.
 Nonactive links are placed into a standby state and are
enabled if one of the active links goes down.
 The maximum number of active links in an EtherChannel
varies between switches.

Chapter 3
LACP Modes of Operation
These are the LACP modes of operation:
 Active: Enable LACP
 Passive: Enable LACP only if an LACP device is detected
The following are some additional parameters that you can use when
configuring LACP:
 System priority
• Each switch running LACP must have a system priority. The system priority can
be specified automatically or through the CLI. The switch uses the MAC address
and the system priority to form the system ID.
 Port priority
• Each port in the switch must have a port priority. The port priority can be specified
automatically or through the CLI.
 Administrative key
• Each port in the switch must have an administrative key value, which can be
specified automatically or through the CLI. The administrative key defines the
capability of a port to aggregate with other ports, determined by these factors: the
port’s physical characteristics, such as data rate, duplex capability, and point-to-
point or shared medium.

Chapter 3
PAgP
 Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) provides the same negotiation
benefits as LACP.
 PAgP is a Cisco proprietary protocol, and it will work only on
Cisco devices.
 PAgP packets are exchanged between switches over
EtherChannel-capable ports.
 Neighbors are identified and capabilities are learned and
compared with local switch capabilities.
 Ports that have the same capabilities are bundled together into
an EtherChannel.
 PAgP forms an EtherChannel only on ports that are configured
for identical VLANs or trunking.
 PAgP will automatically modify parameters of the EtherChannel if
one of the ports in the bundle is modified.
 PAgP and LACP are not compatible.

Chapter 3
PAgP Modes of Operation
These are the following two PAgP modes of operation:
 ■ Desirable: Enable PAgP
 ■ Auto: Enable PAgP only if a PAgP device is detecte

Chapter 3
Statically Bundle Links
 Negotiation with either LACP or PAgP introduces overhead
and delay in initialization.
 As an alternative, you can statically bundle links into an
EtherChannel.
 This method introduces no delays but can cause problems
if not properly configured on both ends.

Chapter 3
Layer 2 EtherChannel Configuration Guidelines
Before implementing EtherChannel in a network, plan the
following steps necessary to make it successful:
 The first step is to identify the ports that you will use for the
EtherChannel on both switches.
 Each interface should have the appropriate protocol
identified (PAgP or LACP), have a channel group number to
associate all the given interfaces with a port group, and be
configured whether negotiation should occur.
 After the connections are established, make sure that both
sides of the EtherChannel have formed and are providing
aggregated bandwidth.

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Follow these guidelines and restrictions when configuring
EtherChannel interfaces:
 EtherChannel support
• All Ethernet interfaces on all modules support EtherChannel, with no
requirement that interfaces be physically contiguous or on the same
module.
 Speed and duplex
• Configure all interfaces in an EtherChannel to operate at the same speed
and in the same duplex mode.
 VLAN match
• All interfaces in the EtherChannel bundle must be assigned to the same
VLAN or be configured as a trunk.
 Range of VLANs
• An EtherChannel supports the same allowed range of VLANs on all the
interfaces in a trunking Layer 2 EtherChannel.

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 STP path cost
• Interfaces with different STP port path costs can form an
EtherChannel as long as they are compatibly configured.
• Setting different STP port path costs does not, by itself, make
interfaces incompatible for the formation of an EtherChannel.
 Port channel versus interface configuration
• After you configure an EtherChannel, any configuration that you apply
to the port channel interface affects the EtherChannel.
• Any configuration that you apply to the physical interfaces affects only
the specific interface that you configured.

Chapter 3
EtherChannel Load-Balancing Options

Chapter 3
Configuring EtherChannel in a Switched
Network

Chapter 3
Network
Step 1.
Configure the two ports that connect each switch to use
channel group 1 and LACP active mode:
 Switch1# configure terminal
 Switch1(config)# interface range Ethernet 1/1-2
 Switch1(config-if-range)# channel-group 1 mode active
 Creating a port-channel interface Port-channel 1
Step 2.
Enter interface configuration mode for the newly created port
channel interface and configure it for trunk mode using
dot1Q:
 Switch1(config)# interface port-channel 1
 Switch1(config-if)# switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
 Switch1(config-if)# switchport mode trunk

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Network
Step 3.
On Switch 1, enter the show etherchannel summary command:

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Network
Step 4.
 Enter the show etherchannel load-balance command to
verify which information EtherChannel uses to load balance
traffic:

Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Summary
 Implementing VLANs and trunks in campus switched
architecture
 Understanding the concept of VTP and its limitation and
configurations
 Implementing and configuring EtherChannel

Chapter 3
 CCNPv7.1 SWITCH Lab3.1 VLAN TRUNK VTP
 CCNPv7.1 SWITCH Lab3.2 ETHERCHANNEL
Chapter 3 Labs

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Acknowledgment
• Some of the images and texts are from Implementing Cisco IP Switched
Networks (SWITCH) Foundation Learning Guide: (CCNP SWITCH 300-115) by
Richard Froom and Erum Frahim (1587206641)
• Copyright © 2015 – 2016 Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Special Thanks to Bruno Silva

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