[c-nsp] Basic Etherchannel Question

Peter Rathlev peter at rathlev.dk
Fri Jan 14 19:42:08 EST 2011


On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 18:50 -0500, Keegan Holley wrote:
> Just wondering what the general consensus was on hard coding vs. negotiating
> etherchannels.  I've always hard coded them and viewed the negotiation
> protocols as a possible point of failure.

We always use LACP, since an unconditional port-channel connected to
something that's not a port-channel might lead to problems. I view it a
little like GE auto-negotiation -- I can't see a reason for not using
it.

-- 
Peter




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