Here's an example show command from a Dell Support Page that illustrates Ports spanning multiple switches that are active in a Port Channel:
Example
Channel Ports Hashing-mode
------- --------------------------------------- ------------
ch1 Active: 1/e1, 2/e2 1
ch2 Active: 2/e2, 2/e7 Inactive: 3/e1 2
ch3 Active: 3/e3, 3/e8 3
ch4 No Configured Ports 5
ch5 No Configured Ports 6
ch6 No Configured Ports 4
ch7 No Configured Ports 3
ch8 No Configured Ports 3
I still need to get some Demo switches. You would think that Dell would be advertising this feature way more since Cisco is the only other vendor that does this, that I know of.
3 comments:
Cisco is god. Everything else is the devil. Nough said. -T
Robert,
Do you know if doing cross stack trunks with PAGP doesn't work at all for sure. I tried this once on the fly just to see if I could do it. I had a stacked 3750 as my core switch and I was trunking two gig fiber sfp's on it (cross stack) to another two in a single 3750. The original plan was just to let the second gig be a backup (using STP). I could never get it to come up (in fact I think both ports got admin shut'd when i tried to put them into the port-channel) and I was in a time crunch so I moved on. It would be interesting to know that I just had to use LACP instead of PAGP. If you know about this shoot me an email.
-Mark DeLong
have you got this working?
We connected a Powerconnect M6348 stack to a Cisco 6500 stack, using a 2 channel group consisted of 1 interface from each switch.
Routing happens on Cisco and the powerconnect stack is purely L2.
We found that some random ports on the M6348 cannot ping router IP on Cisco side. Problem goes away when only one interface's left active in the channel group.
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