[c-nsp] Etherchannel Question

[Peter Rathlev]

On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 18:30 +0100, James Bensley wrote:
> Group  Port-channel  Protocol    Ports
> ------+-------------+-----------+-----
> 2      Po2(SU)         LACP      Gi0/45(P)   Gi0/46(P)
> 3      Po3(SD)         PAgP      Gi0/13(D)   Gi0/14(I)
> 4      Po4(SD)         PAgP      Gi0/15(I)   Gi0/16(I)
> 
> Channel 2 is clearly up and running, but I don't understand the output
> of 3 and 4. D means down which is simple enough ('show ip int br'
> confirms Gi0/13 is down). I means 'stand-alone'. Its this that I can't
> find out, what does 'stand-alone' mean and why would these ports say
> that? Can anyone here explain why?

The "I" means "independent" here. It means that you configured an
etherchannel protocol on this devices, but the neighboring device is
running the same protocol. What's the interface configuration on this
and the neighboring device?

-- 
Peter