"The `Inline' mode also supports `Port-Channel'" ?

[Roman Rodichev]

Referring to this document:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns377/deployment_guide_c07-490578.html

it states:

"The `Inline' mode also supports `Port-Channel', which enables load-balancing and `high-availability' should one of the physical link fails"

is this true? I have a WAVE-474 which comes with 1 onboard port and 2 inline ports. Can you configure those 2 inline ports in a port channel and then use it with WCCP? I don't believe you can. Not sure what the document is referring too.

I also have WAVE-574's and that one can do port-channel using two onboard GIG interfaces + WCCP.

[Bhavin Yadav · Accepted solution]

Hi Roman,

Your judgement was right. You can not configure inline interface in a port channel configuraiton.

Here is the output from wae-612 running 4.1.5c . You will see that there is no option for port channel / channel-group with inline interface.

WAE612-3(config)#int inlineGroup ?
  <1-4>/  Slot number
WAE612-3(config)#int inlineGroup 1/0
WAE612-3(config-if)#?
  autosense      Interface autosense
  bandwidth      Interface bandwidth
  encapsulation  Set encapsulation type for an interface
  exit           Exit from this submode
  failover       Modify failover parameters
  full-duplex    Interface fullduplex
  half-duplex    Interface halfduplex
  inline         VLAN's to intercept
  ip             Interface Internet Protocol Config commands
  no             Negate a command or set its defaults
  shutdown       Put the inline interface in passthrough mode
WAE612-3(config-if)#exit
WAE612-3(config)#int g 1/0
WAE612-3(config-if)#?
  autosense      Interface autosense
  bandwidth      Interface bandwidth
  cdp            Cisco Discovery Protocol Interface Config commands
  channel-group  Configure EtherChannel group
  description    Interface specific description
  exit           Exit from this submode
  full-duplex    Interface fullduplex
  half-duplex    Interface halfduplex
  ip             Interface Internet Protocol Config commands
  mtu            Set the interface Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)
  no             Negate a command or set its defaults
  shutdown       Shutdown the specific interface
  standby        Standby interface config commands
WAE612-3(config-if)#

Hope this helps.

Regards.

[Roman Rodichev]

Thank you for the confirmation, Bhavin