Link Aggregation/Trunks Lab

This lab pertains to basic link aggregation/trunking and Cisco EtherChannel.

We will configure all of these technologies and look at show commands.



Configure Trunking

We will configure trunking on interfaces G0/0 first.

SW1:

(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation "dot1q"

(config-if)#switchport mode "trunk"

(config-if)#switchport trunk allowed vlan "10"

(config-if)#no shut

SW2 will have the same commands.

The show commands will let us see if this interface is configured correctly.

#show interfaces "trunk"


Configure Generic Link Aggregation

We will now configure generic link aggregation with a trunk over it.

SW1:

(config)#int range "g0/1-2"

(config-if)#channel-group "1" mode on

(config-if)#no shut

(config-if)#exit

Configure the trunk over the port-channel.

(config)#int "p01"

(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation "dot1q"

(config-if)#switchport mode "trunk"

(config-if)#switchport trunk allowed vlan "10"


Configure Cisco EtherChannel

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