[c-nsp] Etherchannel or STP

[christopher ashby]

i have etherchannels workign between multiple switches (2900 series) for a
customer.  It works perfect i have about 6 gigabit copper lines  between all
the core switches.  i have had network outages and everything works as
printed.

On 1/29/07, Jose Leitao <jleitao.l at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After some pondering, I have been thinking about what would be the best
> way of using my uplinks from the wiring closets to the datacenter. The
> uplinks are Layer2 (3750), all of L3 is done at the core (4507R)
>
> In a typical scenario, we have link1 and link2, link2 is blocked via
> STP, in case link1 goes down, STP goes to work and link2 becomes
> operational and everything is good in the land.
>
> I can't help but wonder if I'm just wasting a perfectly good uplink
> here,  wouldn't be better to just do an etherchannel with the two
> cables?. Anyone has this sort of thing on a production network?
> pros/cons? terrible things I should be aware of?
>
> Kind Regards,
> --
> José Leitao
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